Back to School Cursive writing in American schools: Here's where this 'dying art' is still taught and why it matters There are 21 US states that currently have cursive in their curricula ...

Cursive Handwriting Will No Longer Be Taught in Schools Because It's a Big, Old Waste of Time Seven states are fighting to continue teaching penmanship in schools By John Boone Nov 15, 2013 6:52 PM ...

A 77-year-old who won an award for penmanship offers a compromise: Old folks teach kids how to write in cursive, ... I wrote large cursive letters on the chalkboard, ...

Jan. 23 is National Handwriting Day, invented by the Writing Instrument Manufacturers Association in 1977 and pegged to John Hancock’s birthday. On this day, Big Pen encourages you to “use a ...

Then-third-grader Logan Gibson receives help from a classmate while learning the cursive alphabet at White Lick Elementary School in Brownsburg, Ind., on April 22, 2011. The reading and writing of ...

Georgia's new education standards require teaching cursive writing to students. The move aims to strengthen fine motor ...

SOMERSET — From educational requirement to after-school activity, cursive writing is making a comeback ... The six-week class takes children through the alphabet at about four letters each week.

Love letters and missives home from the war front wouldn’t be as touching if they were printed instead of written in cursive. Our Declaration of Independence and Constitution wouldn’t s… ...