The statewide shift means students across Georgia will now practice cursive as part of their regular coursework.

A student practices writing in cursive at St. Mark's Lutheran School in Hacienda Heights, Calif., Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012. Bucking a growing trend of eliminating cursive from elementary school ...

Many young people entering college cannot write or read cursive. Indeed, many cannot even sign their name in traditional cursive. To continue reading for FREE, please sign in.

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

“Cursive was so character-defining when I was in school,” said Amy Greene, whose 9-year-old daughter and 11-year-old son prefer keyboards to cursive in their Palo Alto classrooms.

She found traditional cursive “way too curlicue” and slanted, which she said is difficult for children with “any sort of learning issue.” Like many school systems, Arlington starts cursive in the ...

Assembly Bill 446 would require cursive handwriting instruction in first through sixth grade. The bill comes from Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva, D-Fullerton, a former public elementary school ...

Time and technology have largely done away with traditional penmanship, leaving schools with a challenge that mirrors today's fast pace: how to teach a cursive style that's faster to write than ...