PHOENIX — With eyebrows furrowed and fingers holding pencils in clawlike grips, third graders at Lowell Elementary School in Mesa were tackling an assignment involving one of the most controversial ...

But is cursive like riding a bike or do we forget it instantly like virtually anything we learned in high school math? To find out, we asked 11 adults with varying degrees of cursive experience to ...

Two and a half years ago, I presented a carefully thought-out argument for not requiring schools to teach cursive, calling it ...

NEW YORK >> 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. Alabama ...

Did you learn it? Your experiences may vary. To the Editor: Re “It Swirled Out of Style, and Now It Loops Back” (news article, April 14): Learning to write cursive was the most important thing I’ve ...

Although cursive is not required in Arizona%2C many schools still teach it. Some say writing in cursive helps develop the brain. An Arizona State University professor disputes the notion that cursive ...

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 ...

Georgia elementary schools will require cursive writing instruction starting this fall. This change aligns with a national trend of reinstating cursive in school curricula. The new standards expect ...

NEW YORK - 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. Alabama and ...

LANSING, Mich. — Cursive writing, once a staple of elementary education, is vanishing from classrooms across the United States. A Michigan lawmaker is determined to reverse this trend, emphasizing the ...