A Pennsylvania lawmaker has proposed legislation requiring cursive handwriting instruction in public and private elementary schools. Supporters argue cursive writing has cognitive and ...

If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Two lawmakers have introduced bills that would require students to learn cursive handwriting in Missouri schools. Missouri State Reps. Renne Reuter (R-Imperial) and Petty ...

BOISE, Idaho — A new bill proposed in the Idaho Senate aims to require all Idaho students to be proficient at reading and writing in cursive by the end of 5th grade. Cursive is already taught in ...

TRENTON — Teaching cursive has not been part of New Jersey's school standards for more than a decade. But in a world dominated by keyboards and touchscreens, learning such a skill is absolutely ...

She was in her twenties and had received her high school diploma. When it came time to sign documents she asked if it was okay if she printed her name because where she grew up, they did not teach ...

Lisa Meinen-Doerksen, a mother of two children at Border Star Montessori in Brookside, said she likes cursive writing. She believes it has helped her children’s fine motor skills and their ...

Each year around Easter, one Grady County resident organizes a walk to a huge cross outside of Family Worship Center. This year Linden's family joined in on their wear yellow for Linden day.

When I went to school in the 1950s, we had serious penmanship contests, with monetary or medallion prizes. But in 2010, when 41 states, including California, signed on to the nationwide Common Core ...

But in 2010, when 41 states, including California, signed on to the nationwide Common Core State Standards, cursive was not included in the curriculum. The rationale: in a computerized world ...