In this digital age, who needs to know how to read and write cursive? The State of Georgia says all third through fifth graders will learn again how to do just that. Channel 2’s Lori Wilson went out ...

But an Arizona State University educational-leadership professor considered one of the nation's experts in how children learn handwriting says schools no longer need to teach cursive.

When Jack Lew was nominated to be Treasury secretary in 2013, President Barack Obama joked that as a condition of the appointment, Lew would have to learn to sign his name more legibly. The secreta… ...

Last week, elementary school students returned to the classroom in Archdale, N.C., with a new subject on the mandatory agenda: cursive writing. It’s a debate that has been simmering among ...

Handwriting matters, but not cursive. The fastest, clearest handwriters join only some letters: making the easiest joins, skipping others, using print-like forms of letters whose cursive and ...

Another school year, another debate over the fate of cursive writing. More states are making it mandatory as critics question its use.

Mullaney’s school, which teaches a classical liberal arts curriculum, starts teaching cursive writing in Kindergarten and students are required to continue writing in cursive up through graduation.

Starting this year, students will learn how to write cursive letters in second grade.

Readers debate the value of having children learn to write in cursive. Also: San Francisco today; nuclear threats; child care; domestic burdens.