In the fall of 2014, a piece of news caused quite a stir in the education community. One of the societies most renowned for its quality educational environment, Finland, was going to eliminate the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the past 20 years, whether schools should teach cursive writing has been frequently debated: In the mid-2000s and 2010s, ...

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As I was taking notes for this column, I thought it fitting to write them in cursive, a skill I spent many hours mastering ...

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 ...

Over 50 years ago, there was such a thing as teachers of "penmanship." Do schools have such teachers today? If they do, I am sure they are on the road to extinction. Schools are throwing cursive into ...

Cursive isn't required in Indiana schools. Apparently they’re not teaching cursive at Abbott Elementary, either. Viewers of the Feb. 7 season three premiere of the hit ABC sitcom "Abbott Elementary" ...

Despite a directive by the Indiana Department of Education that cursive writing no longer is mandatory, many local educators say they are continuing to teach it as time allows, along with keyboarding ...

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 ...

The national education standards, Common Core, aimed to kill the teaching of cursive. But it is not dead—just wounded. Yesterday, I did a radio interview on WHO in DesMoines, which bills itself as the ...

Starting April 12, all public and private schools in Pennsylvania must reintroduce cursive handwriting into their curriculum. The legislation passed with strong bipartisan support in the House (195‑8) ...

The confluence of Alabama politics and public education has solidified the state’s belief in the value of teaching cursive writing to children. If only real improvements were that easy. Cursive ...