Cursive is making a comeback. States and provinces across North America are re-introducing the continuous form of handwriting ...

Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why. The flowing ...

A group of students from five classrooms at an elementary school in Nelson, B.C., just competed in a North American handwriting contest, called Cursive is Cool, and took home 15 of the 42 awards.

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 ...

Cursive handwriting is thought of as a dying skill in the world of computers and keyboards. Some say it is not necessary to ...

Writing in cursive might be a lost art in the next few decades. While it was a school staple in elementary grades, it fell out of favor in the last few years. Currently, only 23 states require that ...

The Common Core standards don’t require instruction in cursive writing but some states — including Alabama, Tennessee, Louisiana and California — have mandated cursive in public schools. With typing ...

Florida's new cursive requirement makes handwriting mandatory for grades 3-5, with proficiency required before middle school.

My young grandson is a masterful reader and enjoys books well beyond his grade level. The only time he’s stumped, according to our daughter, is in reading cursive writing. And he is not alone. While I ...

Sierra Rivera and her older sister, Dahlia, were thrilled at the idea of baking up a batch of their grandmother’s pumpkin cookies for Thanksgiving, but when their dad gave them the handwritten recipe, ...

On a recent Tuesday night, I attended the parents’ open house at my daughters’ school, a Taft-era brick building in New Haven, Connecticut, which serves four hundred and fifty children, in grades ...

Florida public school students in grades 3 through 5 will now be required to learn cursive writing under a new law that took effect July 1.