A bill that would require elementary school students in New Jersey to learn how to read and write cursive has gained the backing of state Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin. “Great idea,” Coughlin, ...

Editor’s note: Editor Brenda Linert is on vacation this week. This “From the editor’s desk” column was first published in 2015. My newspaper recently published a story by education reporter Margaret ...

A teacher demonstrates the cursive J in her third grade class in a file photo. Robert Willett [email protected] North Carolina House Republicans want to use the state budget to delay new ...

Re “What’s the Point of Teaching Cursive?,” by John McWhorter (Opinion, nytimes.com, Dec. 13): The idea that most cursive documents will be “transliterated into print” is fine until you realize that ...

As followers of education controversies know by now, the Common Core academic standards, soon to be carried out by 45 states, don't require the teaching of cursive handwriting. The curricular gap has ...

Cursive writing is going the way of the floppy disc, photographic film and cassette tapes, we said. Whoa - not so fast, you responded. Two state lawmakers have introduced a bill requiring school ...

VENTURA, Calif., April 2, 2025 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — The American Handwriting Analysis Foundation (AHAF) is excited to announce the return of the Cursive is Cool contest, encouraging students from ...

FAIRVIEW, N.J. (CBSNewYork)-- It's a long way off, but a little boy from the Garden State may want to put his new award and national title on his college application forms. As CBS2's Ali Bauman ...

Rose Kennedy, who will be an eighth grader at Billy Mills Middle School, wears the medal she earned this spring for winning the Zaner-Bloser National Handwriting Contest representing Kansas.