Can learning cursive help kids read better? Some policymakers think it’s worth a try Story by Shawn Datchuk Associate Professor of Special Education, University of Iowa • 56m ...

DENVER -- You may want to hold off before sending a handwritten note to your grandchild. That's because a growing number of young people can no longer read cursive. Since the U.S. adopted Common ...

Cursive instruction waned after Common Core Standards were adopted by most states in 2010, but in recent years, cursive ...

The federal agency is looking for people with the rare skill to read cursive for a unique project.

The year my daughter was born, cursive was axed from the national Common Core standards for K-12 education. For those of us in older generations, writing and reading cursive was a basic skill ...

Cursive handwriting—which provides an abundance of benefits—is making a comeback. Keep reading to see what we mean.

Lawmakers are carving out space in teachers’ classroom time to keep the graceful loops of cursive writing alive for the next generation.

Studies have also shown that kids who learn cursive rather than simply manuscript writing score better on reading and spelling tests, perhaps because the linked-up cursive forces writers to think ...

According to the packet, cursive writing lessons in third grade will introduce students to reading and writing in the different letter style, while in fourth and fifth grade, students will work to ...

Starting this fall, students in Texas will be required to know how to write legibly in cursive by the end of fifth grade.The move comes several years after the State Board of Education changed the … ...