Twenty-four U.S. states require schools to teach cursive, according to a November 2024 report from Education Week, which ...

Despite popular belief, some students continue to learn how to read and write in cursive. While it’s not required to be ...

Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card, looked at it and said, “I can’t read cursive yet.” Then he handed it to me to read. If you have a child ...

PHOENIX — With eyebrows furrowed and fingers holding pencils in clawlike grips, third graders at Lowell Elementary School in Mesa were tackling an assignment involving one of the most controversial ...

Fourth-grade student Mandela Jones practices writing in cursive at Longfellow Elementary School in Pasadena. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) Erica Ingber has something of a dark past when it ...

A pair of bills filed for the 2026 Legislative Session would mandate students from second to fifth grade to learn how to ...

Florida House Bill 127, filed for the 2026 legislative session, would require all public school students in grades 2 through ...

The Microsoft Word Web App makes Microsoft Word features available on your Web browser, providing you with the convenience of working on documents on a website where the documents are stored. It is a ...

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 ...

HB 127 would require all public school students in grades 2 through 5 to learn cursive and, for the first time, prove they’re ...

Shawn Datchuk is an associate professor of special education at the University of Iowa. This essay from The Conversation is republished under a Creative Commons license. Recently, my 8-year-old son ...