Cursive has been making a comeback in U.S. classrooms, with research showing its benefits for learning. But not everyone supports its instruction in an increasingly digital age with an already ...

Starting this school year, all Georgia students in grades 3-5 are expected to learn cursive, with the goal of reading and writing it by end of fifth grade. The state says cursive strengthens literacy, ...

As school-age children increasingly rely solely on digital devices for remote- and in-class learning, many K-12 school systems around the world are phasing out cursive handwriting and no longer ...

“I was so excited to learn how to write in cursive in elementary school,” said Jayme Rost, a second-grade teacher at West Point Elementary in Greensburg.

Benefits of handwriting The increased interest in cursive handwriting likely stems from effort by policymakers to improve the literacy performance of K-12 students across the country.

Then-third-grader Logan Gibson receives help from a classmate while learning the cursive alphabet at White Lick Elementary School in Brownsburg, Ind., on April 22, 2011. The reading and writing of ...

Should children be required to learn cursive? A New Jersey legislator says so. Assemblywoman Angela McKnight has introduced a bill that would require elementary schools to teach kids how to read an… ...

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

STORY: Cursive is making a comeback in California. In an era of computers and tablets, the skill has fallen out of fashion.But a new state law requires students to learn the old-school style of ...

As school-age children increasingly rely solely on digital devices for remote- and in-class learning, many K-12 school systems around the world are phasing out cursive handwriting and no longer ...

Then-third-grader Logan Gibson receives help from a classmate while learning the cursive alphabet at White Lick Elementary School in Brownsburg, Ind., on April 22, 2011. The reading and writing of ...