Cursive writing is still taught in some schools within the U.S., although, it's not nationally mandated or emphasized. In ...

McKnight said cursive could be incorporated during writing or spelling lessons beginning in third grade. “You don’t have to have this as a stand-alone subject,” McKnight said.

It is a fact that in 2010, the U.S. government officially removed cursive from the required Common Core Standards for K-12 education. And frankly, with laptops and tablets replacing paper, ...

Other states, including Maine, Montana, New Mexico, Rhode Island, South Dakota, and Wyoming, leave it up to the individual school district. Nearly 200 years ago, cursive writing was introduced and ...

But cursive handwriting is making a comeback of sorts for K-8 students in the U.S. Several states in recent years have passed legislation mandating instruction in cursive handwriting, including ...

After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters ...