Pennsylvania and New Jersey are among the latest states to require cursive handwriting to be taught in elementary schools.

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 ...

No matter where you look, it seems like boomers can’t stop griping about the lack of cursive writing; kids today don’t do this, they don’t do that, and most egregiously of all, they don’t loop their ...

She said that most of her students have a harder time reading cursive than they do writing it. So Silbernagel is always looking for ways for her students to practice their cursive, including asking ...

As I was taking notes for this column, I thought it fitting to write them in cursive, a skill I spent many hours mastering ...

I'm thrilled to see cursive handwriting in the news and in the classroom. Even better, the headlines agree with what I ...

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 ...

Many lament that the “good old days” when they were taught “the basics” at school have gone. When launching the National Curriculum in 2010, then-prime minister Kevin Rudd stated his objective was: … ...

Across the country, many school districts dropped cursive from their curricula years ago. The new Common Core State Standards now being implemented in most states never mention the word "cursive." ...