Laura Miller, director of curriculum at Butler Area School District, said she’s seen how children nowadays can’t read cursive ...

(The Conversation) – 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.

I'm thrilled to see cursive handwriting in the news and in the classroom. Even better, the headlines agree with what I ...

(The Conversation) — 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.

Cursive is making a comeback in Pennsylvania classrooms this April under a new state law. Why it matters: Spending valuable ...

New bills in Florida would mandate cursive instruction for students in second through fifth grade. Proponents argue cursive is important for reading historical documents and developing a personal ...

DEAR HELOISE: I just have to comment about the lack of needing to teach cursive writing in the letter as described by the retired educator from Montana. No wonder our country is in such sad shape with ...

Cursive seems to be becoming a lost art amongst young people who spend far more time typing on their phones and computers than taking pen to paper. One Gen X woman came to this realization at the ...

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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 ...