A few months ago, I pulled out a kids’ book for my seven-year-old to read to me. She opened the first page, shook her head ...

Re “What’s the Point of Teaching Cursive?,” by John McWhorter (Opinion, nytimes.com, Dec. 13): The idea that most cursive documents will be “transliterated into print” is fine until you realize that ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools across the country after a generation of students who know only keyboarding, texting and printing out their words longhand.

The forgotten art of cursive writing — speedily putting words to paper in flowing connected letters — received a major blow almost a decade ago. Teaching the skill in grade school was dropped from the ...

Forget Marx vs. Mises. You want to get a spirited debate going, ask pretty much anyone over the age of 8: Should kids still be taught cursive writing? I posted this question to Facebook, and for the ...

As schools in Northeast Pennsylvania cut back on teaching cursive handwriting, the Lackawanna County Children’s Library will focus on both reading and writing the style of penmanship. Starting in ...

LORAIN COUNTY – ‘Can anyone tell me why we’re writing in cursive?’ asked Laura Deery, a second-grade teacher at Washington Elementary School in Lorain. ‘Write faster,’ students said, ‘write better.’ ...

In the fall of 2014, a piece of news caused quite a stir in the education community. One of the societies most renowned for its quality educational environment, Finland, was going to eliminate the ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Traditional handwriting is making a comeback in schools in one state after a new bill was just signed into legislation. On Friday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that will ...

Beginning in September, New Jersey public schools must begin teaching cursive writing to students in grades three to five. A ...