Georgia classrooms reintroduce cursive writing for students from third to fifth grade, making it part of assessed coursework.

On Jan. 1, cursive writing became a state requirement for all California public school students in first through sixth grades. It has not been required since 2010, when success on standardized ...

This new understanding of the importance of Grade 1 is beginning to change writing education. In the past, many schools in Canada and the United States waited for struggling readers and writers to ...

Item 1 of 7 A student at Orangethorpe Elementary School practices writing cursive as California grade school students are being required to learn cursive handwriting this year, in Fullerton ...

Cursive teaches things like how letters connect and a different type of hand-eye coordination that's important." Cursive enthusiasts also point to recent College Board data on the new writing ...

Cursive writing may be a lost art since the advent of keyboards and smart phones, but not in Alabama public schools. A new state law will make sure of that, the Montgomery Advertiser reports. Lexi ...

Relegated in 2006 to an optional piece of learning in Ontario elementary schools, cursive writing is set to return as a mandatory part of the curriculum starting in September.

Although Texas, the latest state to embrace cursive writing, first updated its state Education Code with the changes in 2017, they’re set to take place at the start of the 2019-2020 school year ...

A new understanding of the importance of Grade 1 is beginning to change writing education. If your child is missing important basic skills, talk with your child’s teacher to create a plan.