Recent headlines announced that instruction in cursive will resume in public schools. I didn’t know it left! The word “cursive” sounds nasty, a spin-off of “curse.” I picture villain Snidely Whiplash ...

A Virginia after-school cursive club went viral. More than two dozen states require cursive in their curriculums. Is it an ...

NEW YORK – 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. Alabama and ...

PHOENIX — With eyebrows furrowed and fingers holding pencils in clawlike grips, third graders at Lowell Elementary School in Mesa were tackling an assignment involving one of the most controversial ...

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 ...

If you're anything like me, you've completely forgotten how to write in cursive. Some people argue that's a shame, and that cursive is a wonderful, beautiful way of writing. Other people don't see why ...

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