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

A single sentence, uttered in the trial of George Zimmerman for the shooting of teenager Trayvon Martin, has catapulted an issue into the national spotlight. When asked if she could read a letter in ...

A Virginia after-school cursive club went viral. More than two dozen states require cursive in their curriculums. Is it an ...

SUGARLOAF TWP. — Students in second grade began a lesson on cursive writing without using paper or pencils. They stood up and started to recite: “down curve, under curve, over curve” while moving ...

Several states in recent years passed legislation mandating instruction in cursive handwriting.

California has enacted a law requiring schools to teach cursive writing. For years, learning cursive was considered an outdated and unnecessary skill, but the heavy reliance on technology has led to a ...

Many schools have eliminated cursive in elementary schools with the rise of computers But several states say cursive is still valuable for students Proponents says cursive helps coordination and motor ...

PHOENIX — With eyebrows furrowed and fingers holding pencils in clawlike grips, third graders at Lowell Elementary School in Mesa were tackling an assignment involving one of the most controversial ...

“The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” is the sentence that won Daisy Almaraz, a Catholic school seventh grader in the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, a national competition. The sentence doesn ...

PARENTS are not the only ones bemoaning the way so many schools have given up teaching children to write longhand. Researchers are also aware that more than mere pride in penmanship is lost when ...

Although cursive is not required in Arizona%2C many schools still teach it. Some say writing in cursive helps develop the brain. An Arizona State University professor disputes the notion that cursive ...