Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fourth-grade student Mandela Jones practices writing in cursive at Longfellow Elementary School in Pasadena. (Christina House / ...

To the editor: Gustavo Arellano's column on his traumatic experience learning cursive in the second grade brought back memories. More than 40 years ago, my son's fourth-grade teacher complained about ...

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How often do you use cursive writing? Maybe only when you sign a document? With the increased use of technology in the classroom, fewer kids are learning how to write in cursive. Kaye Gooldy, a former ...

Brianna Bell is a writer based in Guelph, Ont. At the end of June, while students and teachers were packing up their bags and dreaming of summer vacation, Ontario’s Education Minister Stephen Lecce ...

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 ...

NEW YORK - Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools across the country after a generation of students who know only keyboarding, texting and printing out their words longhand. Alabama and ...

It's a debate that can bring out strong opinions-- should kids be taught cursive in school? While it's not a requirement for public schools in Vermont, Catholic schools are still putting the pencil to ...

Pennsylvania educators may have to once again teach cursive. Why it matters: State House lawmakers made several pro-cursive arguments before passing a bill last week to mandate the curriculum in ...

When Jack Lew was nominated to be Treasury secretary in 2013, President Barack Obama joked that as a condition of the appointment, Lew would have to learn to sign his name more legibly. The ...