Students in Iowa have a new teaching tool to help kids with their handwriting. University of Iowa researchers developed a ...

Books: Death to Cursive Writing Published Feb 13, 2009 at 7:00 PM EST Updated May 26, 2010 at 12:39 PM EDT By Jessica Bennett Newsweek Is A Trust Project Member ...

A bill is pending in the Michigan House to restore an optional cursive curriculum to schools. It should be mandatory.

Cursive handwriting is alive in North Carolina’s elementary schools – five years after state lawmakers required that students be taught what some advocates feared was becoming a long lost art.

Nearly 49 percent of adults and 35 percent of youth say practicing reading and writing in cursive improves literacy. The poll, paid for by pencil maker Mega Brands America, is neither random nor ...

Handwriting may be history as technology sets class standards By Scott WaldmanUpdatedJan 2, 2013 11:19 a.m. Teacher Lester Betor, left, writes in cursive on the chalkboard for this fifth-grade ...

Love notes. Cursive was our only mode of written communication in school once we learned it. And when we left school, we took handwriting with us—from correspondence to grocery lists.

A-hed Cursive Is Coming Back, Now That Kids Can’t Read Grandma’s Letters More than a decade after many wrote off the handwriting style, states are bringing it back ...

Cursive is having a moment in Connecticut with a new law that adds cursive writing to the state’s model kindergarten through eighth-grade curriculum. While the legislation does not mandate ...