Break out the No. 2 pencils, kids. Cursive handwriting, long mourned as a lost art, is coming back to New Jersey schools ...

Who needs a pencil and paper when we can just type or generate whatever text we need to? Actually, New Jersey students will, ...

This basic life skill was phased out in 2010 with the introduction of the controversial Common Core curriculum — and our ...

ST. LOUIS — In 2010, more than 40 states adopted the same standards for English and math called the Common Core standards. Missouri and Illinois are among the states that have adopted the guidelines.

Script is finding new life in after-school clubs where students can learn to loop and swoosh their handwriting.

Elementary school students in New Jersey will start to learn cursive again after Governor Phil Murphy signed a new bill into ...

A couple in Indiana developed a free writing academy to help young people learn how to write and read cursive handwriting.Twice a week, Terrell and Chelsea Wittington teach young students how to write ...

Print is dead. New Jersey is flipping the script and ordering its public schools to bring back cursive writing starting next ...

To the editor: As a 77-year-old who won my school’s penmanship competition in fourth grade, I’m pretty happy that California kids will be learning cursive handwriting. (“Learning cursive in school, ...

Beginning in September, New Jersey public schools must begin teaching cursive writing to students in grades three to five. A ...

Nearly 40 years later, the admonishments of my second-grade teacher at Thomas Jefferson Elementary in Anaheim still ring in my ears. “Messy! Messy!” I was a precocious 8-year-old, placed in a ...

A group of state lawmakers want to require Washington students to learn how to write in cursive. This game can be pretty ...