What do the U.S. Constitution, birthday cards and your signature have in common? They’re (likely) all in cursive. However, ...

A student at Orangethorpe Elementary School in Fullerton practices writing cursive as California grade school students are being required to learn cursive handwriting this year. REUTERS/Mike Blake A ...

A Pennsylvania lawmaker has proposed legislation requiring cursive handwriting instruction in public and private elementary schools. Supporters argue cursive writing has cognitive and developmental ...

Georgia's updated English Language Arts standards will require cursive writing instruction for students in grades 3 through 5. Third graders will begin learning how to read and write in cursive ...

After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters in ...

LANSING, Mich. — Cursive writing, once a staple of elementary education, is vanishing from classrooms across the United States. A Michigan lawmaker is determined to reverse this trend, emphasizing the ...

I recently saw an article that stated Pennsylvania lawmakers are considering passing a law to teach cursive in schools again. Since when does it take a law by government to teach “cursive,” or what we ...

It needed volunteers to help transcribe historical documents, a task made difficult by the simple fact that a growing number of Americans can’t read or write in cursive. The post highlights a question ...

Is learning cursive writing essential for developing young minds, or is it an outdated skill being championed by nostalgic policymakers? The question sparked a lively and personal debate on a recent ...

After her son died, State Rep. Brenda Carter (D-Pontiac) was sorting through some of the things that her son left behind, besides a whole lot of broken hearts, and came across a letter that he had ...

University of Iowa provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. 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 ...