Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill requiring cursive instruction for students in grades three through five, aiming to ...

A new Florida law aims to strengthen the teaching of cursive writing in public schools. The cursive requirements are part of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fourth-grade student Mandela Jones practices writing in cursive at Longfellow Elementary School in Pasadena. (Christina House / ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Like 32-volume encyclopedias or cassette tapes, cursive writing has become a casualty of technology. Why learn how to draw that funny-looking crooked triple ...

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. If you have a child ...

California has enacted a law requiring schools to teach cursive writing. For years, learning cursive was considered an outdated and unnecessary skill, but the heavy reliance on technology has led to a ...

Sierra Rivera and her older sister, Dahlia, were thrilled at the idea of baking up a batch of their grandmother’s pumpkin cookies last month for Thanksgiving, but when their dad gave them the ...

How badly does 15 minutes a day for one third-grade semester impact other subjects? Not much. Why all the controversy? My third-graders loved to practice handwriting because I always wrote short, ...

For the holiday season, I ordered holiday cards without pre-printed address labels. I wanted to write them out myself so my cards would look less like a direct-mail campaign and appear more genuine. I ...

Then-third-grader Logan Gibson receives help from a classmate while learning the cursive alphabet at White Lick Elementary School in Brownsburg, Ind., on April 22, 2011. The reading and writing of ...