Cursive writing has declined in American public schools, given that educators are tasked with teaching skills that contribute to "an educated citizenry" who are capable of participating in ...

Cursive writing is introduced in second grade about halfway through the school year and reinforced in higher grades. Rost uses a chapter book, “Muggie Maggie,” to introduce the skill.

Cursive writing, once a staple of elementary education, is vanishing from classrooms across the United States. A Michigan ...

LOS ANGELES – 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 ...

A bill is pending in the Michigan House to restore an optional cursive curriculum to schools. It should be mandatory.

Updated Feb. 6: Senate Bill 287, which includes an amendment from Sen. Jean Leising, R-Oldenburg, to mandate cursive writing in Indiana public schools, passed the Senate Tuesday with a 46-3 vote.

Cursive writing is making a comeback. After being made optional in 2006, cursive will return this September as a mandatory part of the Ontario elementary school curriculum. Education Minister ...

Three other districts said it depends on the individual school. And three more said they don’t teach cursive writing at all; however, D-70 in Pueblo said they’re discussing bringing it back.

Today’s adults who mastered cursive back when it was a requirement in school don’t really use it anymore, and they haven’t for a long time. In 2012, one survey of handwriting teachers found ...