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 ...

More than a decade after it was phased out in most schools, elementary school students in California will begin learning cursive writing next year — thanks to a new law. Let's take a moment now for a ...

A variety of educators and politicians across the country are pushing back against the death of cursive, resurrecting the rite of passage. Here's why. Ask anyone who completed third grade in the 1980s ...

Bring back the practice worksheets of yore, perfect that slant, and — please — loop those lowercase Ls and Gs. Just as phonics-based reading recently returned to favor after years of emphasizing whole ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Remember all the loops, curls, and swirls involved with learning how to write in cursive? Well, movies aren't the only thing that ...

Kate Gladstone is the founder of Handwriting Repair/Handwriting That Works and the director of the World Handwriting Contest. April 30, 2013 Handwriting matters, but not cursive. The fastest, clearest ...

There’s a glimmer of hope if you’re looking for last-ditch strategies to save your child from the halls of stupidity. A study published this week in the journal Frontiers of Psychology found that good ...

Long before Chromebooks took center stage in schools, there was cursive handwriting. But for many children growing up today, cursive can be akin to hieroglyphics, as the Modesto Bee reported. Common ...

Baltimore County Public Schools aims to determine if a cursive handwriting pilot program for second- through fourth-grade classes can enhance writing fluency while increasing academic confidence.

Break out the No. 2 pencils, kids. Cursive handwriting, long mourned as a lost art, is coming back to New Jersey schools thanks to one of Gov. Phil Murphy’s final acts. A new state law signed Monday ...

To the editor: Gustavo Arellano’s column on his traumatic experience learning cursive in the second grade brought back memories. More than 40 years ago, my son’s fourth-grade teacher complained about ...