Senator Lindsey Tichenor is a sponsor for the bill that will bring back cursive writing in elementary schools.

Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why.

Across the country, cursive writing had been substantially abandoned for more than a decade in favor of teaching elementary school students to type after they learned to print letters.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WBTV) - A South Carolina state lawmaker is hoping to make teaching cursive mandatory in elementary schools. Rep. Michael Rivers, a Democrat who represents parts of Beaufort and ...

In 2010, cursive was omitted from the new national Common Core standards for K–12 education. The students in my class, and their peers, were then somewhere in elementary school.

Historically, cursive writing was a necessary skill. The ability to write quickly and legibly was essential for notetaking, personal correspondence, and even completing standardized forms.

Students' reading and writing suffer when they don't learn script. Why Students Need to Know Cursive Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card ...

Rouan explained the potential difference between printing and cursive, suggesting that “when you’re printing something, you draw the letter and then you stop and then you draw the next letter.

Cursive may be easier to write than print — for many, at least — but it’s harder to read. And besides, because so many cursive letters differ significantly from their printed equivalents, ...

The National Archives is looking for volunteers to transcribe more than 200 years worth of documents. You can help, even if you can't read cursive.

Not everybody agrees, of course. In Missouri, state Rep. Gretchen Bangert, a Florissant Democrat, is trying once again to pass a law that would make cursive instruction mandatory in public schools.