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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The day Suzanne Bowland learned that cursive handwriting had died at her son’s Denver Public School, she vowed to take matters into her own hands. Literally.

Teaching writing to kids is the next step of learning after they are strong with picture identification skills. It usually begins with pattern writing and then moves on to letter writing, sentence ...

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 ...

A mother-daughter team is fighting a battle that should inspire bands of ruler-wielding teachers to join them in the fray—and will lead others to accuse them of being out of touch with the modern ...

For centuries, “reading and writing and ‘rithmetic” have provided indelible ink of academic success. Yet without much fanfare, cursive writing, long an educational cornerstone, is slipping away from ...

But is cursive like riding a bike or do we forget it instantly like virtually anything we learned in high school math? To find out, we asked 11 adults with varying degrees of cursive experience to ...

Kate Gladstone is the founder of Handwriting Repair/Handwriting That Works and the director of the World Handwriting Contest. April 30, 2013 Handwriting matters, but not cursive. The fastest, clearest ...