Is cursive becoming a lost art? The 2010 Common Core standards began omitting cursive instruction, meaning that many members of Gen Z have never been taught how to read or write cursive, The Atlantic ...

GRAND FORKS — Because children spend so much time using computers and other digital devices — where the keyboard is king — some wonder if the old-fashioned art of handwriting is becoming outdated or ...

Today is National Handwriting Day! When you think of handwriting, you may think of the way you write your name or your penmanship during notetaking but what about the way you write? In today’s time, ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — I’ll be honest: my handwriting didn’t come from ruler-wielding teachers in elementary school. It came from watching and mimicking my mother’s clear and elegant script. Her cursive ...

As STEM subjects — those that are part of science, technology, engineering and math — and other computer-based skills have become priorities for schools, cursive has become a relic, like handwritten ...

Alec Falconer knew for years that he had a problem with words and letters. The young man who is now in 9th grade struggled in school for nearly a decade before his learning difficulty was diagnosed as ...

Kids growing up these days — especially those at the elementary level — may not be as familiar with cursive writing, penmanship or handwriting, as their older brothers and sisters, parents or ...

A variety of educators and politicians across the country are pushing back against the death of cursive, resurrecting the rite of passage. Here's why. Ask anyone who completed third grade in the 1980s ...

Common Core standards do not call for cursive instruction as mandatory part of curriculum At least 41 states do not require public schools to teach cursive reading or writing The standards promote ...

Guest columnist Weston Kincade has been teaching middle and high school English since 2005. He currently teaches at Akron Digital Academy, a hybrid high school utilizing both traditional classroom ...

More and more states are dropping handwriting from their core curricula. Jan. 24, 2011 -- The handwriting may be on the wall for cursive. At least that's what some people fear as schools across the ...