At Holmes Middle School in Alexandria, the after-school Cursive Club meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Since the club started ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The pen may not be as mighty as the keyboard these days, but California and a handful of states are not giving up on handwriting entirely. Bucking a growing trend of eliminating ...

Parents of computer-age kids know how quickly those neatly penned pages of third-grade cursive practice vanish, how seldom kids — as they get older — ever write anything by hand. School papers are ...

I write in cursive. I’m sorry to all my classmates who had to partner with me for physical worksheets for making our assignments half illegible to them. When I was in the third grade, I was taught ...

One month ago, on Jan. 23, this country celebrated National Penmanship Day. You wouldn’t know it. When I went to school in the 1950s, we had serious penmanship contests, with monetary or medallion ...

Many schools have eliminated cursive in elementary schools with the rise of computers But several states say cursive is still valuable for students Proponents says cursive helps coordination and motor ...

More than 40 percent of elementary schools in North Carolina are providing students with weekly lessons in cursive writing, according to a new report by the state education board. The board approved ...

Common Core standards do not call for cursive instruction as mandatory part of curriculum At least 41 states do not require public schools to teach cursive reading or writing The standards promote ...

Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why. The flowing ...