Once a standard in elementary schools, cursive is no longer taught to all students. A Maine lawmaker would like to change ...

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 ...

The House Student Academic Success Subcommittee unanimously advanced a bill 17-0 on Tuesday that would require cursive handwriting instruction in schools for st ...

Why is that? I think it’s because signatures are supposed to be in cursive, or else they don’t count. At least, that’s what I was taught growing up. (And I’m really not that old ...

They have no idea about cognitive brain development. They have no idea that kids that have dyslexia sometimes are encouraged to learn cursive because they learn how to connect letters to make words.

Good handwriting should not automatically be associated with virtue or academic ability ... or 'character-building.' ...

Students would have to write upper and lowercase letters in cursive, write words and sentences legibly with proper spacing and alignment and be able to read cursive writing. If passed, the bill ...

Our oldest grandson recently celebrated his 15th birthday. We got him a card and wrote our birthday messages in cursive handwriting. He had to ask his mother for some help ...

The third grader at St. Brigid School in Portland moved her pencil slowly across the paper, practicing the letter before moving on to the word "Catholic." She looks forward to her daily cursive ...

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After watching her teacher trace the downward and upward curves of a capital C on the chalkboard, 9-year-old Camille Lebeis ...