Cursive started falling out of favor in U.S. schools after 2010 when most states adopted Common Core academic standards.

For weeks the students have been learning, and complaining, about cursive writing. Like Latin, it’s a dead language — er, lost art — and I was determined to resurrect it. The students completed ...

We also want to know how learning cursive affects the development of reading and writing skills. In cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a word are joined with connecting strokes ...

Legislation that would require cursive handwriting instruction in Pennsylvania schools was unanimously approved by the House Education Committee, according to the bill’s sponsor, state Rep.

But cursive handwriting is making a comeback of sorts for K-8 students in the United States. Several states in recent years ...

We also want to know how learning cursive affects the development of reading and writing skills. Cursive instruction ...

Last week, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History recognized the filmmaker Ava DuVernay with a lifetime achievement award. That's where she gave a short speech. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED ...

In other words, the effect moving the hand will have on the reading and writing process. In fact, when we write on keyboards we do not trace the shape of the letter, and so the graphomotor ...

“Let us remind those who try to ‘restore’ a narrow, divisive past, that the future belongs to the whole of us,” said Great Americans Medal recipient Ava DuVernay to a Washington DC crowd ...