Alexandria club teaches cursive. Should it be taught in DMV area schools?

At a middle school in Fairfax County, Virginia, students are learning how to loop their letters together and form words in ...

Fact Finders: Is cursive writing dying?

Since Missouri does not require cursive writing education, one of our viewers wants to know: Is cursive writing dying?

Meet the middle-schoolers keeping cursive alive, one swoop at a time

Sherisse Kenerson in Alexandria, Virginia, leads a club of sixth- through eighth-graders who want to know the art of looping ...
Kansas City Star

Reading and writing in cursive is important, but should your kids have to learn it? | Opinion

Because you are reading this in typeface (or maybe even listening to this in an audio format), cursive probably isn’t even on your radar. Who writes in cursive anymore? Maybe to sign checks or ...
Des Moines Register

Can learning cursive help kids read better? Policymakers think it’s worth a try. | Opinion

Shawn Datchuk is an associate professor of special education at the University of Iowa. This essay from The Conversation is republished under a Creative Commons license. Recently, my 8-year-old son ...
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Back to school: Back to cursive in the classroom under Iowa Education standards

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - Cursive is back in Iowa schools. The ability to read and write cursive has been fading from American society. “You just don’t see very many people using cursive because a lot of ...
The Telegraph on MSN

Missouri bill would require cursive, pencils and paper, limit K-5 screen time to 45 minutes

The use of pencils, pens, paper workbooks and textbooks — along with the teaching of cursive handwriting and a stipulation ...