Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why. The flowing ...

State Superintendent Richard Woods visited Eastside Elementary School on Monday afternoon, presenting students and staff with ...

Lowndes County is celebrating big as all seven elementary schools earn the John Hancock Award while Georgia launches new ELA standards.

NEW YORK (AP) — Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools across the country after a generation of students who know only keyboarding, texting and printing out their words longhand.

Last week, elementary school students returned to the classroom in Archdale, N.C., with a new subject on the mandatory agenda: cursive writing. It’s a debate that has been simmering among experts, ...

VALDOSTA – Georgia State School Superintendent Richard Woods presented the John Hancock Award for cursive writing to schools ...

A single sentence, uttered in the trial of George Zimmerman for the shooting of teenager Trayvon Martin, has catapulted an issue into the national spotlight. When asked if she could read a letter in ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Cursive writing is a skill many of us learned growing up, but it's unfortunately not part of the mandatory curriculum in Michigan. As a result, many children are missing out on ...

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: ...

As technology use grows, fewer young people are writing in cursive, and the Common Core curriculum, academic standards adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia, doesn't even require ...