Separating students’ knowledge from their handwriting can leave teachers feeling like they’re detectives sifting through ...

Cursive handwriting is making a comeback in Tennessee, with performance benchmarks in the works to guide the teaching of the fading art to students. Proposed cursive standards that would begin in ...

Florida lawmakers are putting pen to paper with a new push to make sure every elementary student can actually read Grandma’s handwriting, reviving a cursive requirement that’s technically already on ...

PHOENIX – With eyebrows furrowed and fingers holding pencils in clawlike grips, third-graders at Lowell Elementary School in Mesa, Arizona, were tackling an assignment involving cursive writing.

The year my daughter was born, cursive was axed from the national Common Core standards for K-12 education. For those of us in older generations, writing and reading cursive was a basic skill taught ...

Shawn Datchuk is an associate professor of special education at the University of Iowa. This essay from The Conversation is republished under a Creative Commons license. Recently, my 8-year-old son ...

Patience Gozaydin, 7, a second grade student at Frankstown Elementary practices cursive writing Thursday in Ann Franco’s class. Mirror photo by Cynthia Wise The flow of motion from putting pencil to ...

Muse Elementary School teacher Jessica Mascara explains the cursive handwriting workbook she created to her students. Mascara will teach the students cursive two times a week until April. Logan ...

If we are serious about improving outcomes, we must strengthen every foundational literacy skill, including handwriting.

Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card, looked at it and said, “I can’t read cursive yet.” Then he handed it to me to read. If you have a child ...