Long before Chromebooks took center stage in schools, there was cursive handwriting. But for many children growing up today, cursive can be akin to hieroglyphics, as the Modesto Bee reported. Common ...

Pennsylvania students will soon join a growing number of their peers nationwide practicing the looping, connected script of cursive writing—part of a broader national revival of the once-standard ...

Many people of a certain age remember practicing loops and waves, moving our small hands clutching pencils across pages with light blue dotted and solid lines. But in many schools, that elementary ...

In response to a growing trend where public schools are dropping the teaching of cursive, I wrote a blog post defending the value of learning cursive. 1 The new Common Core standards, adopted by 45 ...

(The Conversation) – Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card, looked at it and said, “I can’t read cursive yet.” Then he handed it to me to read.

Erica Ingber has something of a dark past when it comes to handwriting: The future elementary school principal got a C-minus in cursive in the fourth grade. But she’s ready to follow the curvy ups and ...

A bill requiring cursive instruction and proficiency standards in Florida schools is awaiting the governor's signature. Advocates argue that learning cursive improves spelling, writing fluency, and ...

In 2016, California Democratic state Assembly member Sharon Quirk-Silva sat with then-California Gov. Jerry Brown at an event where he signed baseball-type cards featuring the image of his dog, Colusa ...

The national education standards, Common Core, aimed to kill the teaching of cursive. But it is not dead—just wounded. Yesterday, I did a radio interview on WHO in DesMoines, which bills itself as the ...

A new bill that requires first through sixth graders to learn cursive was signed into law last week by Gov. Gavin Newsom, KTLA reported. Assembly Bill 446, introduced by Assemblywoman Sharon ...

As a bill mandating cursive instruction and establishing proficiency standards heads to the desk of Gov. DeSantis, we are on the cusp of taking an important yet simple step towards boosting student ...