As students get ready to go back to school, some younger students will be picking up a familiar writing style. For today’s ...

When Jack Lew was nominated to be Treasury secretary in 2013, President Barack Obama joked that as a condition of the appointment, Lew would have to learn to sign his name more legibly. The secreta… ...

The statewide shift means students across Georgia will now practice cursive as part of their regular coursework.

A Michigan lawmaker is continuing to push for students to learn to read and write cursive in schools. Rep. Brenda Carter, D-Pontiac, introduced House Bill 4675, which would require the Michigan ...

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

Handwriting skills or cursive writing begins around third grade or age 8 and is then continued and refined through elementary grades. There are many penmanship activities that a kindergarten and pre-k ...

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. This anti ...

Georgia classrooms reintroduce cursive writing for students from third to fifth grade, making it part of assessed coursework.

While cursive has been relegated to nearly extinct tasks like writing thank-you cards and signing checks, rumors of its death may be exaggerated. The Common Core standards seemed to spell the end ...

Cursive is for when you have nothing else to do, or want to live out some steampunk fantasy. Typing, voice dictation technology or my usual chicken scratch would’ve done the job far faster.