NASHUA — A Nashua Board of Education panel rejected a proposal this week to incorporate cursive handwriting into the district’s curriculum. “I just think it is developmentally important for children,” ...

Cursive handwriting is again part of the California elementary school curriculum under a bill signed into law this month. Assembly Bill 446, sponsored by Sharon Quirk-Silva (D-La Palma), amends the ...

A proposal in the Minnesota Senate would require the Commissioner of Education to develop a model curriculum for cursive handwriting. The goal is for students to achieve legible cursive skills by the ...

On the other side of the inkwell, many redditors view cursive as a solution to a problem that no longer exists. They argue that the script was originally designed to prevent ink blots from quills and ...

This article is presented in partnership with CA Lottery. In an age when students can easily type 60 words per minute on their touchscreen devices, you would think that the art of handwriting would be ...

The 2000s weren't a great decade for cursive handwriting. As computers became mainstream, many school districts dropped cursive lessons in favor of keyboard proficiency. But in recent years, the trend ...

Cursive isn't required in Indiana schools. Apparently they’re not teaching cursive at Abbott Elementary, either. Viewers of the Feb. 7 season three premiere of the hit ABC sitcom "Abbott Elementary" ...

The news that instruction in cursive is no longer a part of the required curriculum in New York will strike some as sad. They will mourn the loss of another standard, another chance for schools to ...

For all the new things that schools will be called on to teach under the soon-to-be-implemented Common Core curriculum standards, it’s a skill that has been omitted that is causing controversy: ...

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 ...