Florida lawmakers have approved new legislation requiring elementary school students to be proficient in reading and writing ...

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New Jersey and Pennsylvania are among the most recent states to require schools to teach kids old fashioned handwriting ...

A Virginia after-school cursive club went viral. More than two dozen states require cursive in their curriculums. Is it an ...

(The Conversation) – Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card, looked at it and said, “I can’t read cursive yet.” Then he handed it to me to read.

Sen. Jean Leising once again wants cursive writing to be a required curriculum in every public, charter and state-accredited private elementary school in Indiana. Such instruction hasn’t been required ...

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As elementary school students across California return from winter break, a new lesson plan will soon be on the way. Learning cursive is now required by state law. The new law took effect at the ...

If we are serious about improving outcomes, we must strengthen every foundational literacy skill, including handwriting.

The adult college student, earning his degree at a New York State college to better himself, was ticked off. His adolescent son couldn’t sign his name — not because he wasn’t a smart kid, but because ...