Is cursive writing still being taught in America? Some states are starting to bring the old style back after disappearing. Cursive writing is a style of handwriting characterized by connected letters ...

Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why.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

Dear Heloise: I sympathize to some extent with the writer in a recent column of yours lamented how doctor’s offices will say the appointment is at 10:00 a.m. but ask that you arrive at 9:30 a.m. for ...

An Indiana Department of Education report due this Friday may add fuel to the debate for the return of compulsory cursive writing instruction at Hoosier public and charter elementary schools. Or, it ...

At Holmes Middle School in Alexandria, the after-school Cursive Club meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Since the club started ...

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 ...

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 ...

Frustrated yet again, I tore the gold-embossed stationery in two, crumpled both halves together in my hand, and watched as the paper ball sailed five feet through the air before landing with a soft ...

If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S.

As followers of education controversies know by now, the Common Core academic standards, soon to be carried out by 45 states, don't require the teaching of cursive handwriting. The curricular gap has ...

“Handwriting was initially the first means of preserving information that was previously only passed down orally,” explains Donica. Before the invention of the printing press, copying information or ...