Nearly 40 years later, the admonishments of my second-grade teacher at Thomas Jefferson Elementary in Anaheim still ring in my ears. “Messy! Messy!” I was a precocious 8-year-old, placed in a ...

Have your children ever approached you and asked, “How/why do you write like that? I wish I knew how to do that.” We have. We’re talking about cursive writing, a skill that went by the wayside more ...

Public schools must teach students how to write cursive legibly and become fluent in reading it, under a bill signed by Gov.

E’lon Hamilton, a student at West Mound Elementary, founded the Cursive for Kids club to teach cursive writing to his peers, ...

“I like how my pencil feels on the paper when I write it,” Evi said from her classroom at Mary Queen of Apostles in New Kensington. “It’s very loopy.” Evi and her classmates are learning the art of ...

This basic life skill was phased out in 2010 with the introduction of the controversial Common Core curriculum — and our ...