The curlicue letters of cursive handwriting, once considered a mainstay of American elementary education, have been slowly disappearing from classrooms for years. Now, with most states adopting ...

But cursive handwriting is making a comeback of sorts for K-8 students in the United States. Several states in recent years passed legislation mandating instruction in cursive handwriting, including ...

In cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a word are joined with connecting strokes, such as in a person’s signature. Cursive fell out of favor in U.S. schools over a decade ago.

For anyone interested in learning about cursive handwriting and teaching it to their children or students, the Iowa Reading Research Center will release a free online course and curricula called ...

As politics editor Rick Rouan explained on the podcast: “Some recent research suggests that cursive handwriting forces kids to just slow down, think about word spelling and sentence structure ...

Imagine a time when children can’t read historical ... confess they don’t know how to write in cursive. This might sound like the handwriting apocalypse doomsayers have warned of for generations.

Rita Harris, D-Orlando, said cursive writing is already taught at public schools and that she thinks students are “over-tested” already. “Maybe kids who are second graders can begin to learn ...

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 ...

I preach to my kids to expand their ... sign their names or write in cursive. Turns out it’s mostly a lost art. Printing and typing? No problem. But cursive writing has truly become the ...

They lament writing out ... schools to teach cursive—but that number has been steadily increasing. This year, Kentucky became the latest to legislate the matter, with children expected to ...