As the new school year begins, all those little hands in elementary school are once again at the center of a fierce debate: Is cursive writing a skill that’s still worth teaching, or an out-of-date ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools across the country after a generation of students who know only keyboarding, texting and printing out their words longhand.

BLUEFIELD, W.V. — In these days of electronic communication, many worry kids aren’t learning how to sign their name properly. Some lawmakers in West Virginia want to see a return to basics, at least ...

Good handwriting is not an end in itself. Rather, it is a means to literacy that fundamentally transforms the human experience. Developing control over the shape of the 26 letters of the alphabet ...

The writing may be on the wall for something that used to be standard fare in our elementary schools. It turns out that the elegant script of cursive handwriting is barely being taught anymore. The ...

Many people of a certain age remember practicing loops and waves, moving our small hands clutching pencils across pages with light blue dotted and solid lines. But in many schools, that elementary ...

EAST TEXAS (KLTV) - A boost in cursive writing could be coming to Texas schools in the next few years. That's what educators in one East Texas district say as they review suggestions for handwriting.

HARRISBURG — Lessons in cursive handwriting would be mandated in Pennsylvania public schools under a forthcoming legislative proposal planned in the state House. Rep. Joseph Adams, R-Wayne/Pike, ...

Starting in the 1970s, and under the recent implementation of the Common Core, a former pillar of elementary education has been largely forgotten. But there’s a feeling that learning cursive still has ...