In addition to learning to sign their name or read greeting cards from grandparents, children practicing cursive writing hone fine motor skills. Writing vocabulary and spelling words helps children ...

Kids, don’t listen to the naysayers. Don’t fall for the story that it’s a dying art with no practical application in the modern world. Don’t allow computers with their word processing capabilities to ...

Is learning cursive writing essential for developing young minds, or is it an outdated skill being championed by nostalgic policymakers?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 ...

Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools across the country after a generation of students raised on keyboarding, texting and printing out letters longhand. Alabama and Louisiana passed ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – A local fourth grader is bringing back the art of cursive handwriting. When E’Lon Hamilton realized most of his classmates couldn’t read or write in cursive, he decided he ...

Slate Hill — "How many people make the cursive 'I' that looks like this?" Betsy Corletta asked her fourth-grade class, while pointing to a row of perfectly formed letters on the blackboard. Few of her ...

Editor's note: The following opinion piece is in response to Pittsburgh Tribune-Review columnist Tom Purcell's column in the Feb. 11 Ledger arguing for teaching schoolchildren cursive. Handwriting ...

State Representative Dane Watro, one of the cosponsors of the Pennsylvania bill, argues that cursive “connects us to our history, strengthens learning and deepens our understanding of the world.” ...

I've always been fascinated by history. In the fourth grade I researched and wrote a report about my favorite U.S. President and the reasons why. After spending a couple of hours in the library using ...

I cannot understand why our legislators want to meddle with education policy by mandating cursive instruction. Cursive is a little-used, antique form of handwriting. It is slow to create and difficult ...