PHOENIX – With eyebrows furrowed and fingers holding pencils in clawlike grips, third-graders at Lowell Elementary School in Mesa, Arizona, were tackling an assignment involving cursive writing.

Let's take a moment now for a little writing challenge. Take out a pen and paper and write your name in cursive. A MARTÍNEZ, HOST: I can do it. I know Steve can do it, too. If you're... INSKEEP: ...

Ebony Seay, a Florida A&M University graduate in occupational therapy, has self-published two 50-plus page paperback books designed to help parents teach young kids ABCs and cursive writing, while ...

Florida lawmakers are putting pen to paper with a new push to make sure every elementary student can actually read Grandma’s handwriting, reviving a cursive requirement that’s technically already on ...

Can you imagine writing a letter to a teenage grandson, then finding out that he could not read it? That’s what happened to a friend of mine last weekend. It wasn’t the kid’s fault, you see, problem ...

Cursive handwriting is alive in North Carolina’s elementary schools – five years after state lawmakers required that students be taught what some advocates feared was becoming a long lost art. A new ...

CRITICIZE THE U.S. TARIFFS. MANY OF US CAN’T REMEMBER A TIME WHEN CURSIVE WAS NOT TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS, BUT NOW IT’S ALMOST ANCIENT HISTORY, LEAVING AT LEAST ONE GENERATION TO GEN ZERS TO STRUGGLE WITH ...

Common Core standards do not call for cursive instruction as mandatory part of curriculum At least 41 states do not require public schools to teach cursive reading or writing The standards promote ...

In Holly Martin’s third-grade class at Saint Columbkille in Brighton, the old-fashioned chalkboard has been replaced with an electronic screen. But Martin uses the screen to teach her students a ...