STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Penmanship counts. The city's Department of Education is encouraging schools to bring back cursive handwriting instruction to the classrooms, starting with third grade. Many ...

Baltimore County Public Schools adding a crucial part of elementary school curriculum back into classrooms is being met with ...

On the other side of the inkwell, many redditors view cursive as a solution to a problem that no longer exists. They argue ...

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 ...

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,” ...

Joe Buczek is manager of digital content and promotion at CBS Detroit. He previously worked at WWTV, the Grand Traverse Insider, the Leader and the Kalkaskian, the Oakland Press and the Morning Sun. A ...

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 ...

Maria Pasquini is a Senior News Editor for PEOPLE, covering Human Interest. She has been with the brand since 2017. Cursive writing may have gone out of fashion, but numerous states across the country ...

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 ...

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" ...

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: ...