CLEVELAND, Ohio — I’ll be honest: my handwriting didn’t come from ruler-wielding teachers in elementary school. It came from watching and mimicking my mother’s clear and elegant script. Her cursive ...

Patience Gozaydin, 7, a second grade student at Frankstown Elementary practices cursive writing Thursday in Ann Franco’s class. Mirror photo by Cynthia Wise The flow of motion from putting pencil to ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 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.

GRAND FORKS — Because children spend so much time using computers and other digital devices — where the keyboard is king — some wonder if the old-fashioned art of handwriting is becoming outdated or ...

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

An old school skill is coming back to Georgia classrooms this year, as cursive writing becomes a required part of English Language Arts instruction for the first time in two decades. At Robert Shaw ...

ATLANTA — The 2025 school year in Georgia will start in late July or August, and this time it’s bringing back an older lesson plan for its newer students. Third through fifth graders will have lessons ...

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

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 ...