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

New Jersey and Pennsylvania are among the most recent states to require schools to teach kids old fashioned handwriting ...

Cursive is making a comeback in Pennsylvania classrooms this April under a new state law. Why it matters: Spending valuable ...

Recent headlines announced that instruction in cursive will resume in public schools. I didn’t know it left! The word “cursive” sounds nasty, a spin-off of “curse.” I picture villain Snidely Whiplash ...

Patience Gozaydin, 7, a second grade student at Frankstown Elementary practices cursive writing Thursday in Ann Franco’s class. Mirror photo by Cynthia Wise The flow of motion from putting pencil to ...

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.

Erica Ingber has something of a dark past when it comes to handwriting: The future elementary school principal got a C-minus in cursive in the fourth grade. But she's ready to follow the curvy ups and ...

Sen. Andy Zay, R-Huntington, one of the three who voted against the bill, said the internet safety provisions of the bill should be required but cursive should be an option for school districts to ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — If you want to understand how separated our world has become, look no further than the way we write, clean, printed letters stranded on the page, spaced like islands. But inside one ...

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (7News) — At a middle school in Fairfax County, Virginia, students are learning how to loop their letters together and form words in cursive. 7News talked to a teacher and students ...

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

Amy Brooks can write a note to her third-grade daughter and be assured the girl will understand and follow the directions. That is becoming rarer today because many elementary-school-age children ...