With a pencil still in hand, eight-year-old Mitchell Cait-Goldenthal takes a break from the handwriting exercise he’s working on to explain why it’s important to have good penmanship. “When you’re ...

In this digital age, who needs to know how to read and write cursive? The State of Georgia says all third through fifth graders will learn again how to do just that. Channel 2’s Lori Wilson went out ...

More than a decade after it was phased out in most schools, elementary school students in California will begin learning cursive writing next year — thanks to a new law. Let's take a moment now for a ...

After being relegated in 2006 to an optional piece of learning in Ontario elementary schools, cursive writing is officially returning as a mandatory part of the curriculum in September, and people ...

Cursive is making a comeback. Relegated in 2006 to an optional piece of learning in Ontario elementary schools, cursive writing is set to return as a mandatory part of the curriculum starting in ...

'Cursive writing is a critical life skill in helping young people to express more substantively, to think more critically, and ultimately, to express more authentically,' Education Minister Stephen ...

(The Conversation) – Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card, looked at it and said, “I can’t read cursive yet.” Then he handed it to me to read.

To the editor: As a 77-year-old who won my school’s penmanship competition in fourth grade, I’m pretty happy that California kids will be learning cursive handwriting. (“Learning cursive in school, ...

Cursive is making a comeback — and typing, too — as part of a major revamp of the province’s elementary school curriculum. Starting this fall, Ontario students will learn how to write in longhand ...