MICHIGAN (WSBT) — There’s an effort by a state representative to bring back training for cursive writing in Michigan schools. According to our news partners at WSJM, most kids don’t learn cursive in ...

I’m happy Mr. Holter has lived a long life but I hope he might reconsider his selfish wish to get rid of cursive training (“Rid the world of the curse of cursive writing,” Dec. 24). Perhaps he doesn’t ...

It’s fun Friday in Jill Davis’ third-grade classroom in Mechanicsburg. Students start their day playing a game that puts their cursive writing skills to the test. Called “here comes the judge,” the ...

Children have to learn how to write letters. The debate in schools over the past two decades has been whether they should they learn to write in cursive or print. Some say that with so many students ...

Across the country, schools are no longer teaching cursive writing. We asked members of the Times-Union Email Interactive Group whether this is a wise move. Here is a representative sampling of the ...

You'll notice cursive is coming back to classrooms after Pennsylvania's new law requires schools to teach it again, and that ...

Common Core standards do not call for cursive instruction as mandatory part of curriculum At least 41 states do not require public schools to teach cursive reading or writing The standards promote ...

“Old-fashioned” and “useless” I thought could be me and my cohort of pre-boomers (those born before 1946) on our way into retirement homes and given to just doddering around the garden watering the ...