If we are serious about improving outcomes, we must strengthen every foundational literacy skill, including handwriting.

A Virginia after-school cursive club went viral. More than two dozen states require cursive in their curriculums. Is it an ...

NEW ORLEANS, LA (WVUE) - When it comes to writing, digital devices make it easy and fast. They even serve as the spelling police, and the convenience causes more and more people to nearly write off ...

Pennsylvania has enshrined cursive into its school curriculum. Why it matters: Spending valuable class time teaching students to put pen to paper is a growing nationwide trend, despite students using ...

Our ongoing series A More Perfect Union aims to show that what unites us as Americans is far greater than what divides us. In this installment, we look at the power of the written word. Common Core ...

Pennsylvania schools are preparing to reintroduce cursive into their curriculum. This change was advised to start ...

Several states in recent years passed legislation mandating instruction in cursive handwriting.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The swirling lines from Linden Bateman’s pen have been conscripted into a national fight to keep cursive writing in American classrooms. Cursive. Penmanship. Handwriting. In years ...

Not having been blessed with grandchildren, the news came to me a little late. I couldn’t believe it. “Yes,” said the mother of my great nephew, “it’s true. Schools will no longer teach cursive ...

As a new school year begins, many children will be returning to classrooms filled with brand new computers, tablets and other tools essential to prep students for life in a plugged-in world. But as ...

Research shows that legible cursive writing averages no faster than printed handwriting of equal or greater legibility. (Sources for all research are available on request.) Further research shows that ...