Remember all the loops, curls, and swirls involved with learning how to write in cursive? Well, movies aren't the only thing that can be rebooted. Cursive has been made part of the ELA Standards ...

If young people want to learn cursive, they should do it as an elective in junior high and high school, when students pursue interests that are cool but not necessary to one’s development.

Certainly, the students at Central are still learning to write, just by printing. The Iowa Department of Education reports that state requirements for English/language arts call for a teaching of ...

If young people want to learn cursive, they should do it as an elective in junior high and high school, when students pursue interests that are cool but not necessary to one’s development.

So should kids have to learn cursive (or, as they called it in my day, script)? Most people would probably say no. As a homeschooler, I had the option to teach my kids whatever I wanted.

A 77-year-old who won an award for penmanship offers a compromise: Old folks teach kids how to write in cursive, and kids teach old folks how to use smartphones.

Cursive should be easy to learn once one knows how to print letters, because there are many good books explaining the slight modifications needed to turn printed letters into script.

A New Jersey lawmaker has introduced a bill requiring elementary schools in the state to teach students how to read and write in cursive by the end of third grade.

Lifestyle Should We Quit Teaching Cursive in a Digital Age? While script may wire the brain, connect to history, and come more naturally to many kids, digital print is winning. Lenore Skenazy ...