Students in second grade began a lesson on cursive writing without using paper or pencils. They stood up and started to ...

ST. LOUIS — In 2010, more than 40 states adopted the same standards for English and math called the Common Core standards. Missouri and Illinois are among the states that have adopted the guidelines.

State-mandated cursive writing lessons were among the casualties of the pandemic in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools last year, a new state report says. In 2013, the North Carolina General Assembly ...

FRANKFORT — Cursive writing lessons could soon be making a reappearance in Kentucky schools. Common Core, the federal education initiative adopted in 2010, dropped cursive education, but the Kentucky ...

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

Cursive writing is making a return to Georgia classrooms this school year, thanks to updated English Language Arts standards from the Georgia Department of Education. Starting this month, students in ...

Florida students could once again be learning cursive. A new bill filed in the Florida House could see students in grades two through five learning cursive handwriting once again. The proposed ...

Erica Ingber has something of a dark past when it comes to handwriting: The future elementary school principal got a C-minus in cursive in the fourth grade. But she’s ready to follow the curvy ups and ...

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — The Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE) will begin cursive handwriting instruction for students in grades 3-5 this upcoming fall. To align with Georgia’s K-12 English ...

Bring back the practice worksheets of yore, perfect that slant, and — please — loop those lowercase Ls and Gs. Just as phonics-based reading recently returned to favor after years of emphasizing whole ...