Is cursive becoming a lost art? The 2010 Common Core standards began omitting cursive instruction, meaning that many members of Gen Z have never been taught how to read or write cursive, The Atlantic ...

Cursive writing is making a comeback. After being made optional in 2006, cursive will return this September as a mandatory part of the Ontario elementary school curriculum. Education Minister Stephen ...

BALTIMORE - If you're of a certain age, you probably remember learning cursive in elementary school. While penmanship has largely been erased from most curriculums, at some schools, it's still alive ...

As recently as a half-century ago, young American students would spend many lessons writing curved loops and diagonal lines, as they learned how to write in cursive. Over the years, though, computer ...

University of Calgary provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of Calgary provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. Teaching connected-style handwriting, ...

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. Ask anyone who completed third grade in the 1980s ...

There’s a glimmer of hope if you’re looking for last-ditch strategies to save your child from the halls of stupidity. A study published this week in the journal Frontiers of Psychology found that good ...

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: ...

For many young students, cursive handwriting is a lost art form, dismissed in favor of typing assignments on school Chromebooks or on educational apps. But for Lauren Hand, an eighth-grader at St.