A 77-year-old who won an award for penmanship offers a compromise: Old folks teach kids how to write in cursive, and kids teach old folks how to use smartphones.

A bill is headed to the governor's desk that would require all Oklahoma public and charter schools to teach cursive writing to students in third through fifth grades. Right now, some schools teach ...

In response, seven states — California, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Utah — are writing cursive requirements back into the curriculum.

If you have a child in the Philadelphia School District, chances are they have not been taught how to read or write cursive either.

On Wednesday, Governor Kasich signed 32 bills which included House Bill 58. It makes it so curriculum will be developed to teach children in kindergarten through fifth grade how to write in cursive.

“Children who struggle with letter formation are usually less motivated to write, leading to future problems with taking notes, doing homework, and writing essays.

Although cursive is not required in Arizona%2C many schools still teach it. Some say writing in cursive helps develop the brain. An Arizona State University professor disputes the notion that ...

News that many schools across the nation, and the state, have dropped cursive writing from their elementary curriculum has received criticism from those who believe handwriting is essential to the ...

In a statement last week, Nicole Malliotakis, a Staten Island assemblywoman who pushed for the change, said the reason to add cursive was so that students would “know how to write a signature of ...

A proposed law would require New Jersey elementary schools teach kids how to read and write in the graceful, flowing loops taught to previous generations.