As the new school year begins, all those little hands in elementary school are once again at the center of a fierce debate: Is cursive writing a skill that’s still worth teaching, or an out-of-date ...

In recent years schools have abolished handwriting lessons in place of computer keyboarding. But this week North Carolina became the latest state to veer back to tradition with the 'Back to Basics' ...

Each of the 15 students in Mollie Sweeney’s third grade class raised their dominant hand. Sweeney, a teacher at Burrell’s Bon Air Elementary, then walked through the motions of how to write a ...

The writing may be on the wall for something that used to be standard fare in our elementary schools. It turns out that the elegant script of cursive handwriting is barely being taught anymore. The ...

Illinois lawmakers are considering a signature issue: Should the state require schools to teach students how to write in cursive? Gov. Bruce Rauner vetoed a bill that would have required schools to ...