Across the country, cursive writing had been substantially abandoned for more than a decade in favor of teaching elementary school students to type after they learned to print letters.

Rouan explained the potential difference between printing and cursive, suggesting that “when you’re printing something, you draw the letter and then you stop and then you draw the next letter.

Cursive writing, once a staple of elementary education, is vanishing from classrooms across the United States. A Michigan lawmaker is determine ...

All third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade students across Georgia will learn to write in cursive starting this fall, and many ...

If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority ...

Given all that today's students are mandated to learn, it may well be true that there's not enough time in third-grade to squeeze in cursive handwriting. And that's too bad.

Well, it’s finally over. My stint as a seventh grade English Language Arts co-teacher has come to an end, but not without a Finale. For weeks the students have been learning, and complaining ...

Indiana schools stopped teaching cursive in 2011 and it is no longer a required course in most school districts. "I chatted with friends and family who have younger children, and it soon became ...

Assembly Bill 446 would require cursive handwriting instruction in first through sixth grade. The bill comes from Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva, D-Fullerton, a former public elementary school ...