A new state law requires teaching cursive writing in elementary schools starting in September. Some educators aren't so happy ...

Break out the No. 2 pencils, kids. Cursive handwriting, long mourned as a lost art, is coming back to New Jersey schools ...

Who needs a pencil and paper when we can just type or generate whatever text we need to? Actually, New Jersey students will, ...

This basic life skill was phased out in 2010 with the introduction of the controversial Common Core curriculum — and our ...

As one of his final acts, Gov. Phil Murphy paved the way for bringing cursive back ...

ST. LOUIS — In 2010, more than 40 states adopted the same standards for English and math called the Common Core standards. Missouri and Illinois are among the states that have adopted the guidelines.

A couple in Indiana developed a free writing academy to help young people learn how to write and read cursive handwriting.Twice a week, Terrell and Chelsea Wittington teach young students how to write ...

To the editor: As a 77-year-old who won my school’s penmanship competition in fourth grade, I’m pretty happy that California kids will be learning cursive handwriting. (“Learning cursive in school, ...

Script is finding new life in after-school clubs where students can learn to loop and swoosh their handwriting.

Nearly 40 years later, the admonishments of my second-grade teacher at Thomas Jefferson Elementary in Anaheim still ring in my ears. “Messy! Messy!” I was a precocious 8-year-old, placed in a ...

A proposal requiring testing for Florida students’ cursive writing ability passed its second House committee Thursday, the ...