Not everyone is convinced cursive deserves a comeback tour.

The group of preteens uncapped their markers and began practicing how to capitalize two new letters: “B” and “Q.” The lesson felt like a return to the basics. Only this time, the middle-schoolers were ...

Inside the classroom, a new Kentucky law requires students to learn cursive. It says, "cursive writing shall be included as a course of study in all elementary schools and shall be designed to ensure ...

Years after it was omitted from the Common Core standards, some students are practicing cursive in clubs after school and in libraries. Some states are bringing it back to classrooms. Credit ...

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 ...

Sherisse Kenerson stood in the front of her classroom Thursday afternoon at Holmes Middle School in Lincolnia, Virginia, and explained how to write the letters “M” and “N” in cursive. Then, she had ...

Halle O'Brien writes during after-school cursive club, held by teacher Sherisse Kenerson, at Holmes Middle School in Alexandria, Va. In Sherisse Kenerson’s after-school classroom, Sandi takes out a ...

Research has shown that it helps children develop. But many parents say their kids aren’t learning cursive in school. When my 12-year-old twin boys went to overnight camp several years ago, my father ...

Twelve-year-old Sandi Chandee wants to be a doctor when she grows up. But that's not why she memorized one of the longest medical terms in the English language ...