Morgan Polikoff is an assistant professor of education at the University of Southern California's Rossier School of Education, where he researches the design and effects of standards, assessment and ...

Years after it was omitted from the Common Core standards, some students are practicing cursive in clubs after school and in libraries. Some states are bringing it back to classrooms. Credit ...

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 / ...

The group of preteens uncapped their markers and began practicing how to capitalize two new letters: “B” and “Q.” The lesson felt like a return to the basics. Only this time, the middle-schoolers were ...

FULLERTON, California, Jan 27 (Reuters) - A generation of children who learned to write on screens is now going old school. Starting this year, California grade school students are required to learn ...

Break out the No. 2 pencils, kids. Cursive handwriting, long mourned as a lost art, is coming back to New Jersey schools thanks to one of Gov. Phil Murphy’s final acts. A new state law signed Monday ...

Have you ever tried to read your physician’s prescriptions? Children increasingly print their writing because they don’t know cursive or theirs is simply unreadable. I have a middle-school grandson ...

Florida will require cursive instruction for students in grades three through five. Proponents believe cursive helps with literacy, hand-eye coordination, and identifying learning disabilities. Some ...

Chris Kobara stood in front of an electronic whiteboard in his New York City high school, practicing with a swoop of his pen the connection between the “a” and “r” in his name. He stepped back and ...