Cursive writing (and, thus, reading cursive) is not formally taught any longer and was dropped from the Common Core curriculum standards in 2013. What are the current and future implications of ...

A variety of educators and politicians across the country are pushing back against the death of cursive, resurrecting the rite of passage. Here's why.

Learning to write in cursive may no longer be popular in American schools, but education experts stress that the craft can be beneficial to students in more ways than one.

Cursive handwriting plays a part in developing them. Yoder said it helps stimulate the brain in a variety of ways that can have long-lasting implications in a way that typing does not.

What makes handwriting a unique identifier stems in large part from where the writer was born, the first language spoken and, of course, the handwriting method taught at school.

I hope that the time once devoted to teaching cursive can now be diverted to teaching students about the content of their writing rather than its physical form.

Is cursive handwriting necessary to learn? That¿s under debate as some states work to ensure it is still taught in school.

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.

Whether it's required or not, cursive is fast becoming a lost art as schools increasingly replace pen and paper with classroom computers and instruction is increasingly geared to academic subjects ...

Lawmakers in state after state – particularly in the South – are carving out space in teachers’ classroom time to keep the graceful loops of cursive writing alive for the next generation.

One month after the New York Times hosted the “Is Cursive Dead?” debate, North Carolina declared that cursive is very much alive. House Bill 146, nicknamed the “Back to Basics” bill, was ...

Learning cursive is good for children’s fine motor skills, and writing in longhand generally helps students retain more information and generate more ideas.