Educators and researchers who embrace cursive say that the skill can help students’ motor skills, improve their writing’s ...

Learning to read and write cursive was once a rite of passage for practically every American schoolchild. Until the early ...

Harford County Public Schools is bringing back cursive writing instruction to second and third grade classrooms this school year. The first day of school in Harford will be Monday. Cursive engages ...

More kids are about to receive the gift given me in the long ago fifth-grade classroom of one Miss McDaniel: cursive handwriting. On the classroom walls she displayed commendable examples of our ...

I was very encouraged to read a recent New York Times article by Dana Goldstein that asks what students “lose when they stop writing.” Truth be told, I was a little bummed not to have been interviewed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 25 states currently require students to learn cursive. PeopleImages/iStock via Getty Images Plus Learning to read and ...

Cursive writing is being restored in Florida schools after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Senate Bill 182 into law, which took effect on July 1, 2026. Students in grades three through fifth grades will be ...

A 6-year-old grips a pencil, tongue out in concentration, as she carefully forms the letters of her name. Her brain is quietly building connections. I recently watched a 4-year-old do this. It took ...

Educators are worried that many students can no longer write essays without A.I. And it’s costing more than just grammar skills. By Dana Goldstein After years of studying how human beings write, the ...