New K-12 English language arts standards build on state’s reading progress by reinforcing fundamental skills essential to ...

Pennsylvania and New Jersey are among the latest states to require cursive handwriting to be taught in elementary schools.

As I was taking notes for this column, I thought it fitting to write them in cursive, a skill I spent many hours mastering ...

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Heather Eriksson, a homeschool mother, says her family keeps cursive simple. “We just utilize worksheets, and the more you practice, the better you get at doing cursive,” she said. At the Eriksson ...

Mo Njie works on a cursive lesson in Erica Riffner's class at Hillside. Riffner says she tells her students it’s important for them to at least be able to read cursive. Riffner helps Ava Tomcykowski ...

Twelve-year-old Sandi Chandee wants to be a doctor when she grows up. But that's not why she memorized one of the longest medical terms in the English language ...

Halle O'Brien writes during after-school cursive club, held by teacher Sherisse Kenerson, at Holmes Middle School in Alexandria, Va. In Sherisse Kenerson’s after-school classroom, Sandi takes out a ...

For well over a century, elementary school students were taught the loopy, fluid handwriting style called cursive. Then came the rise of digital devices, and schools began to prioritize teaching ...

Each of the 15 students in Mollie Sweeney’s third grade class raised their dominant hand. Sweeney, a teacher at Burrell’s Bon Air Elementary, then walked through the motions of how to write a ...