Is cursive becoming a lost art? The 2010 Common Core standards began omitting cursive instruction, meaning that many members of Gen Z have never been taught how to read or write cursive, The Atlantic ...

For more than five millennia, handwriting shaped how we remember, plan, and connect. In a touchscreen world, the question isn ...

Children are taught to print in the first few years of grade school and, depending on the school, stay with printing throughout their academic careers or they are taught cursive in second or third ...

Pennsylvania could become the 26th state to require schools to teach cursive to students. Cursive instruction waned after Common Core Standards were adopted by most states in 2010, but in recent years ...

Cursive writing, when done right, looks like art: Letters flow elegantly into each other, the pen or pencil never rising off nor smudging the page. It is pretty. It is formal. But is it useful enough ...

Nearly 40 years later, the admonishments of my second-grade teacher at Thomas Jefferson Elementary in Anaheim still ring in my ears. “Messy! Messy!” I was a precocious 8-year-old, placed in a ...

Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why. The flowing ...

LANSING, Mich. — Cursive writing, once a staple of elementary education, is vanishing from classrooms across the United States. A Michigan lawmaker is determined to reverse this trend, emphasizing the ...

Is learning cursive writing essential for developing young minds, or is it an outdated skill being championed by nostalgic policymakers? The question sparked a lively and personal debate on a recent ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Traditional handwriting is making a comeback in California schools. On Friday Governor Newsom signed a bill that will require cursive instruction in first through sixth grade.

Cedarwood School teacher Niki Gazley helps one of her students, Regan King, practice writing in cursive. Across the country, there's a new push to bring back an old skill. Last year, the Louisiana ...

An Indiana Department of Education report due this Friday may add fuel to the debate for the return of compulsory cursive writing instruction at Hoosier public and charter elementary schools. Or, it ...