Cursive writing did not make the cut, and typing skills largely replaced it. But even before then, cursive was slowly being phased out of elementary school ... she was teaching said they couldn ...

so they can teach cursive if they think it's what their students need," said Kate Dando, a spokeswoman for the Council of Chief State School Officers, which promotes the Common Core. "The ...

42% of schools said they did not teach the skill. 48% of traditional public schools and 55% of charter schools said they did not include cursive writing in their curriculum. By comparison ...

"I don't think it needs to be in statute that we need to teach ... who did answer, the report found that most private schools offered cursive whereas public schools were split on whether they ...

Erica Ingber has something of a dark past when it comes to handwriting: The future elementary school principal got a C-minus in cursive in the fourth grade. But she’s ready to follow the curvy ...

More than a decade after it was phased out in most schools ... When cursive comes up in some kinds of old documents, family letters, they struggle to read it. INSKEEP: So she started teaching ...

As more schools stop teaching cursive handwriting ... these days," Aguilar told The New York Times. "And when they did register to vote through the automatic voter registration process, they ...

The move also reignited the question of whether K-12 schools ... teaching cursive and penmanship has been ongoing since the mid-2010s, after most states adopted the Common Core State Standards ...

If you can write comfortably in cursive, you have a leg up on this Free Press reporter and likely many students who have been through public schooling in Michigan in recent years — but lawmakers ...