In the fall of 2014, a piece of news caused quite a stir in the education community. One of the societies most renowned for its quality educational environment, Finland, was going to eliminate the ...

The Times asked readers for samples of their cursive and to talk about their relationship with old-fashioned, longhand writing with its loops, curls and dips. A new law will require all California ...

Is learning cursive writing essential for developing young minds, or is it an outdated skill being championed by nostalgic policymakers? The question sparked a lively and personal debate on a recent ...

Georgia elementary schools will require cursive writing instruction starting this fall. This change aligns with a national trend of reinstating cursive in school curricula. The new standards expect ...

The Ohio Department of Education and Workforce has spurred another debate on the worth of teaching cursive handwriting in the digital age by updating its five-year-old teaching guidance for ...

“I like how my pencil feels on the paper when I write it,” Evi said from her classroom at Mary Queen of Apostles in New Kensington. “It’s very loopy.” Evi and her classmates are learning the art of ...

STAUNTON — A few weeks ago one of the reporters at The News Leader received an envelope from someone with a story idea. She opened it and realized it was a handwritten letter in cursive. Her first ...

STORY: Cursive is making a comeback in California. In an era of computers and tablets, the skill has fallen out of fashion. But a new state law requires students to learn the old-school style of ...

As school-age children increasingly rely solely on digital devices for remote- and in-class learning, many K-12 school systems around the world are phasing out cursive handwriting and no longer ...

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 ...

Hetty Roessingh receives funding from SSHRC. A Werklund School of Education Teaching and Learning Support Grant provided funding for the development of the resource discussed in this story. University ...