A Virginia after-school cursive club went viral. More than two dozen states require cursive in their curriculums. Is it an ...

I'm thrilled to see cursive handwriting in the news and in the classroom. Even better, the headlines agree with what I ...

New Jersey and Pennsylvania are among the most recent states to require schools to teach kids old fashioned handwriting ...

When Celia Batan sat down to write her graduate thesis, she started with one question: “What do we lose if we do not teach children how to connect letters instead of printing or typing?” On the ...

To understand why cursive writing seems to be a dying art, you have to go all the way back to…well, only 2007, actually. It ...

Meet Iris Hatfield, the Louisville woman who created 'The New American Cursive.' Cursive will be a new requirement in Kentucky's public elementary schools this year, but it may not be the same 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 as the ...

If we are serious about improving outcomes, we must strengthen every foundational literacy skill, including handwriting.

Earlier this week, Katie Zezima for The New York Times reported that cursive handwriting seems to be dying off. Fewer people are using it, and teachers are spending less time making sure their ...