Starting in the 1970s, and under the recent implementation of the Common Core, a former pillar of elementary education has been largely forgotten. But there’s a feeling that learning cursive still has ...

The bill would have students from 2nd to 5th grade learn how to write in cursive and then be tested on what they learned at ...

Students currently learn cursive between third and fifth grade. If House Bill 127 becomes law, students will begin learning ...

Baby boomers and Gen Xers who remember laboring over cursive penmanship in grade school might feel a twinge of envy over millennials who, by and large, have escaped those wrist-cramping lessons. After ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools across the country after a generation of students who know only keyboarding, texting and printing out their words longhand.

John Hancock’s signature on the Declaration of Independence may be the most famous inscription in American history, but here’s the question: Assuming no pre-existing knowledge, could your grandparents ...

ST. LOUIS — In 2010, more than 40 states adopted the same standards for English and math called the Common Core standards. Missouri and Illinois are among the states that have adopted the guidelines.

As the new school year begins, all those little hands in elementary school are once again at the center of a fierce debate: Is cursive writing a skill that’s still worth teaching, or an out-of-date ...

Entering a national debate, freshman Louisiana Sen. Beth Mizell wants to require public schools to teach cursive writing, starting in August. “I have people who tell me they got a thank-you note and ...

Oscar Sanchez, a fifth-grader at Enders Elementary, works on his cursive handwriting on Thursday. The class is trying out an old-school handwriting curriculum to see how explicit cursive writing ...

When Sen. Jean Leising first sought to add cursive writing to Indiana's required curriculum, she worried that kids who were no longer taught lessons in penmanship would eventually not be able to read ...