Each of the 15 students in Mollie Sweeney’s third grade class raised their dominant hand. Sweeney, a teacher at Burrell’s Bon Air Elementary, then walked through the motions of how to write a ...

As school-age children increasingly rely solely on digital devices for remote- and in-class learning, many K-12 school systems around the world are phasing out cursive handwriting and no longer ...

Studies find many elementary school teachers have had little-to-no preparation in how to effectively teach handwriting, and a University of Iowa special education professor has developed a free tool ...

ATLANTA — In this digital age, who needs to know how to read and write cursive? The State of Georgia says all third through fifth graders will learn again how to do just that. Channel 2’s Lori Wilson ...

A Minnesota senator is pushing a bill to require cursive handwriting in schools, citing cognitive benefits and historical ...

Pennsylvania has enshrined cursive into its school curriculum. Why it matters: Spending valuable class time teaching students ...

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — It’s a skill that nearly disappeared during the pandemic. But inside one DeKalb County elementary school, students are proving cursive writing is far from forgotten. At Robert ...

Is learning cursive writing essential for developing young minds, or is it an outdated skill being championed by nostalgic policymakers? The question sparked a lively and personal debate on a recent ...

The pen might be mightier than the sword, but it could soon be just as relevant. Educators and parents are observing a surge in US youths who don’t know how to read or write in cursive — which they ...

After her son died, State Rep. Brenda Carter (D-Pontiac) was sorting through some of the things that her son left behind, besides a whole lot of broken hearts, and came across a letter that he had ...

New bills in Florida would mandate cursive instruction for students in second through fifth grade. Proponents argue cursive is important for reading historical documents and developing a personal ...