A new Florida law aims to strengthen the teaching of cursive writing in public schools. The cursive requirements are part of a sweeping education bill that was recently signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis and ...

Is learning cursive writing essential for developing young minds, or is it an outdated skill being championed by nostalgic policymakers? The question sparked a lively and personal debate on a recent ...

Melody Eichbauer grew up learning cursive in grade school and scribbling exam answers until her hand cramped well into her college years. Eichbauer, a professor of medieval, legal and ecclesiastical ...

A single sentence, uttered in the trial of George Zimmerman for the shooting of teenager Trayvon Martin, has catapulted an issue into the national spotlight. When asked if she could read a letter in ...

Years after it was omitted from the Common Core standards, some students are practicing cursive in clubs after school and in libraries. Some states are bringing it back to classrooms.

A bill seeking to make cursive writing compulsory in Indiana schools came back this year in the Indiana General Assembly. One lawmaker has filed a bill for mandatory cursive instruction every year ...

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New bills in Florida would mandate cursive instruction for students in second through fifth grade. Proponents argue cursive is important for reading historical documents and developing a personal ...

Tyler Meder, a 13-year-old growing up outside Chicago, is a model eighth-grader. He's an early riser, a hard worker, and an honors student at school. Even back in third grade, he remembers being ...

Click here to see how Emily’s and her daughter’s handwriting improved. If you have school-age children, you may have noticed their handwriting is terrible. They may communicate incessantly via written ...

Semi-ambidextrous Nicholas Cronquist rebelled against third-grade cursive lessons. “I remember I hated it and I told my teacher I thought it was dumb,” he says. Cronquist, now 26, eventually learned ...