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

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 ...

We also want to know how learning cursive affects the development of reading and writing skills. In cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a word are joined with connecting strokes ...

Legislation that would require cursive handwriting instruction in Pennsylvania schools was unanimously approved by the House Education Committee, according to the bill’s sponsor, state Rep.

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The swirling lines from Linden Bateman’s pen have been conscripted into a national fight to keep cursive writing in American classrooms. Cursive. Penmanship. Handwriting.

This bill, filed on Feb. 23 by State Rep. Tobin Overdorf (R-Palm City), aims to expand cursive-writing requirements in the state’s public schools for students in grades two through five.