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, ...

Tyara Brooks teaches her fourth-grade students how to write in cursive at Longfellow Elementary School in Pasadena. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) “Messy! Messy!” Nearly 40 years later, the ...

Learning how to write takes time, whether it is holding your pen properly or ensuring all the letters are on the same ...

ATLANTA — 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 ...

I type all day. I swipe and tap on my phone. I scribble notes to myself on paper. I’m happy with my mostly-digital life. But every now and then I’ll get a handwritten note—from an old lady, ...

Treasure Coast lawmakers propose bills requiring elementary students to read and write cursive, reviving a skill dropped from state law in 2010.

In our increasingly digital age, penmanship is becoming something of a lost art. Between Common Core standards that dictate teaching time and the universal adoption of smart phones, tablets, and ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Most school districts in Texas don't currently teach cursive. But that's about to change. In 2017, the State Board of Education changed the requirements for the "English Language Arts ...

Lawmakers worried students wouldn't know how to sign a check. Students in New Jersey may be required to learn how to read and write cursive by the end of the third grade. A new bill, which was ...

TRENTON, New Jersey -- A New Jersey lawmaker has introduced a bill requiring elementary schools in the state to teach students how to read and write in cursive by the end of third grade. Cursive was ...

There are a lot of things about Common Core not to like, but perhaps the most viscerally unlikeable tenant of this leviathan educational system is the effort to eliminate cursive from elementary ...