A new state law requires teaching cursive writing in elementary schools starting in September. Some educators aren't happy ...

A proposal requiring testing for Florida students’ cursive writing ability passed its second House committee Thursday, the ...

After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fourth-grade student Mandela Jones practices writing in cursive at Longfellow Elementary School in Pasadena. (Christina House / ...

Should schools teach cursive handwriting? The question is an impressively polarizing one in the K-12 education world. One of the most widely cited criticisms of the Common Core State Standards is that ...

On a recent Tuesday night, I attended the parents’ open house at my daughters’ school, a Taft-era brick building in New Haven, Connecticut, which serves four hundred and fifty children, in grades ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bring back the practice worksheets of yore, perfect that slant, and — please — loop those lower case Ls and Gs. Just as ...