A bill seeking to make cursive writing compulsory in Indiana schools came back this year in the Indiana General Assembly. One lawmaker has filed a bill for mandatory cursive instruction every year ...

A single sentence, uttered in the trial of George Zimmerman for the shooting of teenager Trayvon Martin, has catapulted an issue into the national spotlight. When asked if she could read a letter in ...

The Ohio Department of Education and Workforce has spurred another debate on the worth of teaching cursive handwriting in the digital age by updating its five-year-old teaching guidance for ...

The curly, connected flow of cursive seems like ancient text to students today, who are more used to writing with clicks of a keyboard than with perfect penmanship. Crestwoood Middle School language ...

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at U Mass Amherst chapter and does not reflect the views of Her Campus. I remember sitting in my third grade classroom, with my pink ...

Florida's new cursive requirement makes handwriting mandatory for grades 3-5, with proficiency required before middle school.

If you're going to write a cursive sentence in Mary Beth Taylor's class at Parsley Elementary School, you have to prepare. Pencils rest on the desks in front of her fourth-grade students. Two fingers ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... My third-grade son is an anomaly. He actually enjoys a school subject, which — much to our chagrin — is being scrubbed from elementary schools nationwide.