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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The National Archives is currently looking for volunteers who have the ability to read cursive writing to help them transcribe and tag records of over 200 years' worth of documents. Amid the rise ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.