Some academic researchers advocate teaching cursive to students in the first three years of elementary school, saying research shows cursive helps brain development.

Proponents of cursive point to fuzzy research that argues that cursive writing helps us process language better. They compare it to teaching math — by the same logic, why bother teaching ...

An hour spent teaching cursive is an hour spent not teaching something that will actually be relevant to children's lives — like computer education, a subject that is severely underserved in ...

In Wisconsin, public schools are not obligated to teach students cursive as the state's Common Core State Standards, adopted in 2010, do not require it.

Teachers in San Diego are learning how to teach cursive, while the national debate over whether handwriting is obsolete rages on.

And three more said they don’t teach cursive writing at all; however, D-70 in Pueblo said they’re discussing bringing it back. Before 2009, most kids were taught cursive writing in the third ...

The national education standards, Common Core, aimed to kill the teaching of cursive. But it is not dead—just wounded. Yesterday, I did a radio interview on WHO in DesMoines, which bills itself ...

Teaching our youths cursive handwriting may be the key to improving their skill level. This would indeed have a positive impact on America’s economy.

A new bill introduced by a New Jersey assemblywoman would require all state elementary schools to teach students how to read and write in cursive.

The national education standards, Common Core, aimed to kill the teaching of cursive. But it is not dead—just wounded. Yesterday, I did a radio interview on WHO in DesMoines, which bills itself ...