In the past 20 years, whether schools should teach cursive writing has been frequently debated: In the mid-2000s and 2010s, cursive writing was largely discontinued in favor of typing skills. However, ...

Two and a half years ago, I presented a carefully thought-out argument for not requiring schools to teach cursive, calling it ...

Despite a directive by the Indiana Department of Education that cursive writing no longer is mandatory, many local educators say they are continuing to teach it as time allows, along with keyboarding ...

SACRAMENTO - California elementary schools are now required to teach cursive in the classroom. It has not been a requirement since 2010, but many schools including a portion of classrooms at Stockton ...

Over 50 years ago, there was such a thing as teachers of "penmanship." Do schools have such teachers today? If they do, I am sure they are on the road to extinction. Schools are throwing cursive into ...

One survey of handwriting teachers found that just 37% wrote in cursive. And that was a dozen years ago. Bigstock Goodness, I hate writing cursive. Some people love it. They enjoy and admire the ...

A bill is headed to the governor's desk that would require all Oklahoma public and charter schools to teach cursive writing to students in third through fifth grades. Right now some schools teach ...