Pennsylvania and New Jersey are among the latest states to require cursive handwriting to be taught in elementary schools.

As I was taking notes for this column, I thought it fitting to write them in cursive, a skill I spent many hours mastering ...

Separating students’ knowledge from their handwriting can leave teachers feeling like they’re detectives sifting through ...

Lawmakers in Missouri have introduced a bill that could restore previous curriculum standards across the state, including ...

FLAGLER COUNTY, Fla. — Several states are making cursive writing instruction a requirement in schools once again, citing the importance of students being able to read our nation’s founding and ...

Halle O'Brien writes during after-school cursive club, held by teacher Sherisse Kenerson, at Holmes Middle School in Alexandria, Va. In Sherisse Kenerson’s after-school classroom, Sandi takes out a ...

Many people of a certain age remember practicing loops and waves, moving our small hands clutching pencils across pages with light blue dotted and solid lines. But in many schools, that elementary ...

A Minnesota senator has proposed a bill to require students to learn cursive handwriting by the end of fifth grade. Proponents argue that learning cursive improves cognitive function and helps ...

Pennsylvania students will soon join a growing number of their peers nationwide practicing the looping, connected script of cursive writing—part of a broader national revival of the once-standard ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many people of a certain age remember practicing loops and waves, moving our small hands clutching pencils across pages with light ...

The phenomenon of older guys getting together is even broader than writer Benjamin Cassidy describes (“A Curious Gathering of Dull Men,” January 25). There is also a national informal group, Retired ...

Each of the 15 students in Mollie Sweeney’s third grade class raised their dominant hand. Sweeney, a teacher at Burrell’s Bon Air Elementary, then walked through the motions of how to write a ...