Each of the 15 students in Mollie Sweeney’s third grade class raised their dominant hand. Sweeney, a teacher at Burrell’s Bon Air Elementary, then walked through the motions of how to write a ...

NEW YORK – Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools across the country after a generation of students who know only keyboarding, texting and printing out their words longhand. Alabama and ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. CHELSEA — It was “r” day in Rhonda Rush’s third-grade class. Rush led her ...

Our ongoing series A More Perfect Union aims to show that what unites us as Americans is far greater than what divides us. In this installment, we look at the power of the written word. Common Core ...

Students' reading and writing suffer when they don't learn script. Why Students Need to Know Cursive Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card, ...

Students in second grade began a lesson on cursive writing without using paper or pencils. They stood up and started to ...

Ryan MillanEditorial Intern Multiple Missouri House Representatives are pushing legislation that’d require schools to teach and grade cursive writing, with the goal of making students proficient at ...

I got a letter. A real letter. The kind that comes in an envelope with a stamp and a hand-written address in pretty cursive. I waved it at my coworkers. My heart leaps when I see an envelope ...