For many, the return of mandatory cursive handwriting instruction in the Ontario curriculum, starting in Grade 3, is a welcome and long-overdue move on the part of the Ministry of Education.

Olivo learned cursive writing in Grade 3 and said it was a “big deal” at his elementary school for several years. Lawrence, grew up in west end, hardly learned it and says he feels he lost out.

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 Stephen ...

Cursive is making a comeback. Relegated in 2006 to an optional piece of learning in Ontario elementary schools, cursive writing is set to return as a mandatory part of the curriculum starting in ...

Twice a week, Terrell Wittington and his wife, Chelsea, go to the YWCA Northwest Indiana to teach young students cursive writing.

Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card, looked at it and said, “I can’t read cursive yet.” Then he handed it to me to read. If you have ...

La’Montez Saunders could have been outside playing basketball with his buddies on a recent warm afternoon. Instead, the 10-year-old boy was inside the West End Center in Roanoke, seated at ...

Writing feels "complicated," said the only left-hander in the household, and she didn't remember learning cursive writing in school. Anna, 14, read without hesitation, but when it came to writing ...