Garnet Valley Elementary School has already started incorporating cursive lessons into the school day.

Students in California have a new curriculum as part of their classes at school in the digital age: Cursive. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a new law at the beginning of 2024 requiring students in grades ...

NASHVILLE (Reuters) - Children in Tennessee will have to get used to holding a pencil again next year when new cursive handwriting standards go into effect in schools throughout the state. The trend ...

As followers of education controversies know by now, the Common Core academic standards, soon to be carried out by 45 states, don't require the teaching of cursive handwriting. The curricular gap has ...

(The Conversation) – 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 read cursive yet.” Then he handed it to me to read.

I'm thrilled to see cursive handwriting in the news and in the classroom. Even better, the headlines agree with what I believe to be true, albeit with a few kinks.

It’s becoming a hot topic: Should elementary school students be required to learn cursive writing? In this digital age, when typing on a keyboard is the norm even for preschoolers, the graceful ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — I’ll be honest: my handwriting didn’t come from ruler-wielding teachers in elementary school. It came from watching and mimicking my mother’s clear and elegant script. Her cursive ...

The Common Core standards don’t require instruction in cursive writing but some states — including Alabama, Tennessee, Louisiana and California — have mandated cursive in public schools. With typing ...