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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - Cursive is back in Iowa schools. The ability to read and write cursive has been fading from American society. “You just don’t see very many people using cursive because a ...

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.

Cursive writing may have gone out of fashion, but numerous states across the country are moving to reintroduce it into their elementary-school curriculums. Although Texas, the latest state to ...

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.