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other digital devices — where the keyboard is king — some wonder if the old-fashioned art of handwriting is becoming outdated or ...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, ...

It’s fun Friday in Jill Davis’ third-grade classroom in Mechanicsburg. Students start their day playing a game that puts their cursive writing skills to the test. Called “here comes the judge,” the ...

While cursive has been relegated to nearly extinct tasks like writing thank-you cards and signing checks, rumors of its death may be exaggerated. The Common Core standards seemed to spell the end of ...

The group of preteens uncapped their markers and began practicing how to capitalize two new letters: “B” and “Q.” The lesson felt like a return to the basics. Only this time, the middle-schoolers were ...

An old school skill is coming back to Georgia classrooms this year, as cursive writing becomes a required part of English Language Arts instruction for the first time in two decades. At Robert Shaw ...

SOUTH BEND — Twice a month, Lauren Quiroz, a seventh-grader at Corpus Christi School, sits down and practices cursive handwriting. It’s faster than print, she says, “because the letters connect.” She ...

Cindy Halpin writes the word “city” in cursive on the board for her students to practice cursive writing in her third grade classroom at St. Brigid School in Portland on Wednesday. Brianna ...

Gov. Phil Murphy signed legislation mandating cursive instruction in New Jersey schools. Was it really worth it?