Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pennsylvania is considering legislation that mandates cursive instruction in public schools. Angela Guthrie/iStock via Getty ...

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - Digital devices have some forgetting basic handwriting skills, but Louisiana students will no longer have that excuse. "Cursive writing shall be taught in all public schools.

If you can read the picture accompanying this column, you are one of a diminishing number. It may very well be that your son — or your grandson — cannot. And the reason has nothing to do with literacy ...

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. If you have a child ...

Shawn Datchuk is an associate professor of special education at the University of Iowa. This essay from The Conversation is republished under a Creative Commons license. Recently, my 8-year-old son ...