Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why.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

Students' reading and writing suffer when they don't learn script. Why Students Need to Know Cursive Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card, ...

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

Cursive writing, when done right, looks like art: Letters flow elegantly into each other, the pen or pencil never rising off nor smudging the page. It is pretty. It is formal. But is it useful enough ...

TRUMBULL -- In careful, deliberate strokes, Matthew Page, 12, wrote "Go to Italy. See the Leaning Tower of Pisa." Jessica Taylor leaned over his shoulder and examined the loops of his capital "L". Not ...

In response to a growing trend where public schools are dropping the teaching of cursive, I wrote a blog post defending the value of learning cursive. 1 The new Common Core standards, adopted by 45 ...