In addition to learning to sign their name or read greeting cards from grandparents, children practicing cursive writing hone fine motor skills. Writing vocabulary and spelling words helps children ...

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

Each of the 15 students in Mollie Sweeney’s third grade class raised their dominant hand. Sweeney, a teacher at Burrell’s Bon Air Elementary, then walked through the motions of how to write a ...

Florida students could once again be learning cursive. A new bill filed in the Florida House could see students in grades two through five learning cursive handwriting once again. The proposed ...

FRANKFORT — Cursive writing lessons could soon be making a reappearance in Kentucky schools. Common Core, the federal education initiative adopted in 2010, dropped cursive education, but the Kentucky ...

Cursive writing is making a return to Georgia classrooms this school year, thanks to updated English Language Arts standards from the Georgia Department of Education. Starting this month, students in ...

ST. LOUIS — In 2010, more than 40 states adopted the same standards for English and math called the Common Core standards. Missouri and Illinois are among the states that have adopted the guidelines.

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 follow the curvy ups and ...

The Florida House unanimously approved a measure Wednesday that would require elementary school students to learn how to write in cursive. "On July 4, 2026, we will celebrate the 250th anniversary of ...

New bills would mandate cursive reading and writing instruction for Florida elementary school students. Students would be required to demonstrate proficiency in reading and writing cursive by the ...