Teaching cursive starting in third grade and continuing through fifth grade is already part of the Idaho Content Standards. However, individual schools and teachers choose which standards to emphasize ...

The rise of typepads and keyboards is rewriting school curricula and raising questions about the value of old-fashioned penmanship. Some kids now sign their names in block letters. Jonathan Baskin ...

Cursive – the pinnacle of quick and elegant penmanship, or just fancy, antiquated squiggles? However you choose to describe it, students in Louisiana’s public and charter schools will get bigger doses ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — In an age when students are often working on computers, typing up essays and homework instead of writing them out, the art of cursive writing may feel like a relic of the past.

Legislation that would mandate cursive writing be taught in both high schools and elementary schools in Illinois dumbfounded some area school administrators. The measure was approved 67-48 Wednesday ...

NEW CUMBERLAND, Pa. (WHTM) — This wouldn’t have been news at any other moment in history, but it is now: The fourth graders at St. Theresa School here are writing everything in cursive. Almost all of ...

Does it matter whether Americans can read the original, handwritten versions of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution? What about land deeds and birth, marriage and death records from ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A new Florida bill is trying to, once again, make cursive writing a required subject in schools. HB 127, ...