A group of students from five classrooms at an elementary school in Nelson, B.C., just competed in a North American handwriting contest, called Cursive is Cool, and took home 15 of the 42 awards.

The Ohio Department of Education and Workforce has spurred another debate on the worth of teaching cursive handwriting in the digital age by updating its five-year-old teaching guidance for ...

Florida's new cursive requirement makes handwriting mandatory for grades 3-5, with proficiency required before middle school.

Break out the No. 2 pencils, kids. Cursive handwriting, long mourned as a lost art, is coming back to New Jersey schools thanks to one of Gov. Phil Murphy’s final acts. A new state law signed Monday ...

In the fall of 2014, a piece of news caused quite a stir in the education community. One of the societies most renowned for its quality educational environment, Finland, was going to eliminate the ...

Teaching handwriting in elementary school is getting huge support from research in cognitive psychology and neuroscience. Some state legislatures are paying attention and mandating that handwriting be ...

Second and third graders at Lawrence Lawson Elementary School in Sparta are learning how to write in cursive. “I feel it’s an important skill,” said Elizabeth Path, two/three multi-age teacher at ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - A state lawmaker from Beaufort County wants to require South Carolina schools to teach students how to write in cursive. State Rep. Michael Rivers, D-Beaufort, prefiled the ...

To the editor: As a 77-year-old who won my school’s penmanship competition in fourth grade, I’m pretty happy that California kids will be learning cursive handwriting. (“Learning cursive in school, ...

Key points Some schools in the United States have stopped teaching manuscript at certain grade levels, which is a mistake. Brain scanning has demonstrated that handwriting in manuscript helps ...