A Virginia after-school cursive club went viral. More than two dozen states require cursive in their curriculums. Is it an ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The pen may not be as mighty as the keyboard these days, but California and a handful of states are not giving up on handwriting entirely. Bucking a growing trend of eliminating ...

Pennsylvania schools are preparing to reintroduce cursive into their curriculum. This change was advised to start ...

WISCONSIN RAPIDS – It's not uncommon today to see a toddler, barely capable of forming a coherent sentence, skillfully work a smartphone or tablet. And with the increasing amount of time kids spend ...

One month ago, on Jan. 23, this country celebrated National Penmanship Day. You wouldn’t know it. When I went to school in the 1950s, we had serious penmanship contests, with monetary or medallion ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — I’ll be honest: my handwriting didn’t come from ruler-wielding teachers in elementary school. It came from watching and mimicking my mother’s clear and elegant script. Her cursive ...

If we are serious about improving outcomes, we must strengthen every foundational literacy skill, including handwriting.

I write in cursive. I’m sorry to all my classmates who had to partner with me for physical worksheets for making our assignments half illegible to them. When I was in the third grade, I was taught ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The pen may not be as mighty as the keyboard these days, but California and a handful of states are not giving up on handwriting entirely. Bucking a growing trend of eliminating ...

Common Core standards do not call for cursive instruction as mandatory part of curriculum At least 41 states do not require public schools to teach cursive reading or writing The standards promote ...