As the new school year begins, all those little hands in elementary school are once again at the center of a fierce debate: Is cursive writing a skill that’s still worth teaching, or an out-of-date ...

A group of students from five classrooms at an elementary school in Nelson, B.C., just competed in a North American handwriting contest, called Cursive is Cool, and took home 15 of the 42 awards.

NEW YORK (AP) — Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools across the country after a generation of students who know only keyboarding, texting and printing out their words longhand.

Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why. The flowing ...

Florida students will be required to demonstrate proficiency in cursive writing under a new state law taking effect this week ...

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Starting in the 1970s, and under the recent implementation of the Common Core, a former pillar of elementary education has been largely forgotten. But there’s a feeling that learning cursive still has ...

MONROE, La. – Gone are the days when second- and third-grade students spent hours mastering the technique needed to create the cursive alphabet and even more time learning to string those letters ...

My third-grade son is an anomaly. He actually enjoys a school subject, which — much to our chagrin — is being scrubbed from elementary schools nationwide. The subject in question is cursive ...

The writing may be on the wall for something that used to be standard fare in our elementary schools. It turns out that the elegant script of cursive handwriting is barely being taught anymore. The ...