There are a lot of things about Common Core not to like, but perhaps the most viscerally unlikeable tenant of this leviathan educational system is the effort to eliminate cursive from elementary ...

LOS ANGELES - The pen may not be as mighty as the keyboard these days, but California and a handful of states are not giving up on handwriting entirely. Bucking a growing trend of eliminating cursive ...

In our home, we have a framed letter written by a Civil War soldier to his mother. That letter has been passed down for generations in my mother-in-law’s family. In it, the soldier talks about the ...

In our home, we have a framed letter written by a Civil War soldier to his mother. That letter has been passed down for generations in my mother-in-law's family. In it, the soldier talks about the ...

HB 127 would require all public school students in grades 2 through 5 to learn cursive and, for the first time, prove they’re proficient.

Starting in the 1970s, and under the recent implementation of the Common Core, a former pillar of elementary education has been largely forgotten. But there’s a feeling that learning cursive still has ...

Many schools have eliminated cursive in elementary schools with the rise of computers But several states say cursive is still valuable for students Proponents says cursive helps coordination and motor ...

I mean, I'm 39 and we were taught cursive both in Catholic and public school. I do have a report, however, that I recently found. It was from 7th grade and it was on the allied bombing campaign in ...

If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority from ...

So I learned to write cursive many years ago. Wasn't very good at it and even had to take remedial cursive since I have a doctor's signature. Once I left home my Mom would include letters with gifts ...