Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why. The flowing ...

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

For Americans over a certain age, the idea of not learning cursive in school is close to unimaginable. The experience of mastering the looping letters and rhythmic flow from word to word — while never ...

Over the past decade or so, something big has been happening in public schools throughout the United States: Instruction in cursive writing has all but disappeared, cut from curricula as schools bring ...

In our home, we have a framed letter written by a Civil War soldier to his mother. That letter has been passed down for generations in my mother-in-law's family. In it, the soldier talks about the ...

No matter where you look, it seems like boomers can’t stop griping about the lack of cursive writing; kids today don’t do this, they don’t do that, and most egregiously of all, they don’t loop their ...

Cursive writing was removed from schools’ “Common Core” standards, which are set by a group of governors and school administrators from around the country, in 2010. Wait, this is a public health ...

The 2025 school year in Georgia will start in late July or August, and this time it’s bringing back an older lesson plan for its newer students. Third through fifth graders will have lessons on how to ...

In response to a growing trend where public schools are dropping the teaching of cursive, I wrote a blog post defending the value of learning cursive. 1 The new Common Core standards, adopted by 45 ...

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