Georgia's elementary schoolers will soon be getting lessons in cursive, which some experts say could pay dividends in their reading and writing skills. Getty Images. The next generation of Georgia ...

UNDATED (USAToday.com) - As schools swap out old state standards for new Common Core academics, educators are warning about an overlooked casualty of progress - cursive handwriting. They say that, ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools across the country after a generation of students who know only keyboarding, texting and printing out their words longhand.

Just when we think traditional education is being tossed into the school trash bin, we get reminded that some of the old ways still actually work. Social studies and civics are being restored to ...

The teaching of cursive is back in the news as action has heated up in several states recently. The House of Representatives in Tennessee overwhelmingly approved a bill last month that would require ...

Depending on the geographic locus, the beginning of the semester is upon us and we have begun to do real work, finishing the musical chairs game of finding seats for students in the classes they need ...

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COLUMBUS, Ohio — The swirling lines from Linden Bateman’s pen have been conscripted into a national fight to keep cursive writing in American classrooms. Cursive. Penmanship. Handwriting. In years ...