In 2010, cursive was omitted from the new national Common Core standards for K–12 education. The students in my class, and their peers, were then somewhere in elementary school.

The increased interest in cursive handwriting likely stems from efforts by policymakers to improve the literacy of K-12 students across the country, a skill in dire need of a boost.

Cursive writing is still taught in some schools within the U.S., although, it's not nationally mandated or emphasized. In ...

Cursive instruction waned after Common Core Standards were adopted by most states in 2010, but in recent years, cursive ...

I hope that the time once devoted to teaching cursive can now be diverted to teaching students about the content of their writing rather than its physical form.

As schools have drifted away from cursive writing instruction, one Gary couple is launching classes in the flowing writing ...

The Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE) will begin cursive handwriting instruction for students in grades 3-5 this upcoming fall. To align with Georgia’s K-12 English Language Arts Standards, ...

Can you read cursive? It's a superpower the National Archives is looking for. The National Archives is looking for volunteers with an increasingly rare skill: Reading cursive.

Legislation that requires cursive handwriting instruction in Pennsylvania schools was approved by the state House of Representatives, according to the bill’s sponsor, state Rep. Dane Watro, R-116, ...

With all the divisions in this country, it’s amazing that the ability to round out your letters has become controversial, writes Laurel Vermilyea Cortes.

The death of cursive handwriting reared its ugly head during the recent presidential election. Since 2010, according to Yahoo News, many states have dropped cursive writing from their curricula as ...