Cursive started falling out of favor in U.S. schools after 2010 when most states adopted Common Core academic standards.

So they're opting not to teach it anymore. "It's seeing the writing on the wall," said Patricia Granada, principal at Eagle View Elementary in Fairfax County, Va. "Cursive is increasingly becoming ...

Cursive seems to be becoming a lost art amongst young people who spend far more time typing on their phones and computers than taking pen to paper. One Gen X woman came to this realization at the ...

Research suggests it may be possible to improve overall writing and reading through handwriting instruction.

After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters in ...

Educators often have trouble finding enough time in the school day to teach all the expected writing skills, let alone something that's not mandated such as cursive handwriting. In several ...

As it stands, just 24 states require that cursive is taught in the classroom. But cursive handwriting is making a comeback of sorts for K-8 students in the U.S. Several states in recent years have ...

Under current standards, elementary school students receive some instruction on writing cursive. But schools aren’t explicitly required to teach students to read it and state law does not ...