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 ...

Recently enacted legislation now requires elementary schools to teach cursive at some point between first and sixth grades, which means that the diminishing skill will be revitalized for the next ...

Pennsylvania schools are required to teach cursive handwriting under a new law.

The Ohio Department of Education and Workforce has spurred another debate on the worth of teaching cursive handwriting in the digital age by updating its five-year-old teaching guidance for ...

Pennsylvania is joining about 25 other states — including Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware — in requiring cursive instruction.

Pennsylvania is joining about 25 other states — including Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware — in requiring cursive instruction.

Students in New Jersey will soon learn cursive again, thanks to a new state law signed by the governor. Gov. Phil Murphy signed a law Monday that requires school districts to teach cursive in third ...

After watching her teacher trace the downward and upward curves of a capital C on the chalkboard, 9-year-old Camille Lebeis turned her attention to her cursive workbook. The third grader at St. Brigid ...

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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 ...