Teaching of cursive writing returns after falling to the wayside amid revised learning standards and emphasis on keyboarding. Backers say it promotes learning.

This is not throwing shade. It is a fact that in 2010, the U.S. government officially removed cursive from the required Common Core Standards for K-12 education.

At Greenbriar East Elementary, the cursive lesson is a hybrid of old and new. Students have pencils in hand, but their ...

Starting this year, California grade school students are required to learn cursive handwriting, after the skill had fallen out of fashion in the computer age.

The Fountain grandmother is on a new crusade to bring back cursive writing after learning her granddaughter, a sixth-grader at Fountain Middle School, doesn’t know how to read or write in cursive.

Learning to write in cursive may no longer be popular in American schools, but education experts stress that the craft can be beneficial to students in more ways than one.

Teaching cursive writing became an optional curriculum in 2011 when Indiana adopted the Common Core State Standards for education.

Starting this year, students in third, fourth and fifth grades will learn how to read and write in cursive as part of their weekly library instruction.

California is now one of over 20 states mandating cursive writing learning in the classroom.

The efficient writing style once thrived in U.S. businesses and schools, but researchers fret that today’s lack of cursive literacy may have a surprising impact on history—and ourselves.