Less than one week after the death of North Carolina middle schooler Caden Sorrell, his parents want the community to ...

There’s no sugarcoating it, Ben Franklin’s method of learning to write is hard, but modern writers and scientists agree it ...

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 ...

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 ...

The humble booklet is more than just a last redoubt against cheating. Staring down its empty pages, students discover what they’re capable of as writers and thinkers.

Colleen Endrizzi fondly recalls when she first experienced the “lost language” as a homeschooled kindergartener. She learned it side by side with manuscript writing, a style in which letters are ...

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Florida elementary school students will now be required to learn cursive writing beginning this school year under a new state law that took effect July 1. The requirement is part of Senate Bill 182, a ...

Anyone of a certain age can remember finally grasping the concept of printing letters, only to have the bomb of cursive writing dropped onto your desk not long after. For some, cursive was a way of ...

Baltimore County Public Schools is bringing back cursive writing for elementary students across the district, Superintendent Dr. Myriam Rogers announced on Wednesday. Starting in the 2026-2027 school ...