Before students hunker down to take their SATs this spring, many will have an array of tools to help them with the exam. Flash cards, study guides and — cursive handwriting? For many, cursive ...

ATLANTA — In this digital age, who needs to know how to read and write cursive? The State of Georgia says all third through ...

Reasons why your brain benefits from cursive handwriting and why schools should teach script.

Last week, elementary school students returned to the classroom in Archdale, N.C., with a new subject on the mandatory agenda: cursive writing. It’s a debate that has been simmering among ...

But an Arizona State University educational-leadership professor considered one of the nation's experts in how children learn handwriting says schools no longer need to teach cursive.

Starting this year, students in third, fourth and fifth grades will learn how to read and write in cursive as part of their ...

People often credit my good handwriting to my Catholic school education—like a nun with a ruler and a taste for corporal ...

When Jack Lew was nominated to be Treasury secretary in 2013, President Barack Obama joked that as a condition of the appointment, Lew would have to learn to sign his name more legibly. The secreta… ...

Handwriting matters, but not cursive. The fastest, clearest handwriters join only some letters: making the easiest joins, skipping others, using print-like forms of letters whose cursive and ...

Another school year, another debate over the fate of cursive writing. More states are making it mandatory as critics question its use.