A Minnesota senator is pushing a bill to require cursive handwriting in schools, citing cognitive benefits and historical ...

When states in 2010 introduced the Common Core State Standards, which didn’t include cursive writing, most schools abandoned ...

Pennsylvania students will soon join a growing number of their peers nationwide practicing the looping, connected script of ...

Sometimes, Harrisburg surprises us by doing something simple, sensible and even bipartisan. That happened recently when the ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Cursive writing is a skill many of us learned growing up, but it's unfortunately not part of the mandatory curriculum in Michigan. As a result, many children are missing out on ...

(The Conversation) – Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card, looked at it and said, “I can’t read cursive yet.” Then he handed it to me to read.

New bills would mandate cursive reading and writing instruction for Florida elementary school students. Students would be required to demonstrate proficiency in reading and writing cursive by the ...

State Representative Dane Watro, one of the cosponsors of the Pennsylvania bill, argues that cursive “connects us to our ...

Shawn Datchuk is an associate professor of special education at the University of Iowa. This essay from The Conversation is republished under a Creative Commons license. Recently, my 8-year-old son ...