Zaner-Bloser took over with its two distinct alphabets for print and cursive, but the wide differences between the two in the letterforms led to the development of D’Nealian in 1978.

Quinn Coffman says reading the note "took a bit," but he learned cursive in the second grade in St. Louis, Missouri, from Mrs ...

Cursive could be written into Maine law under new bill Once a standard in elementary schools, cursive is no longer taught to all students. A Maine lawmaker would like to change that.

California is now mandating cursive instruction for public school students, but what's the point of pushing a pen in a digital world?

Is cursive writing something every child should learn? What other academic pursuits do you see falling by the wayside that schools might want to reinstitute in their curriculum?

Don’t force kids to learn cursive. Mine is terrible, and I’m doing just fine Tyara Brooks teaches her fourth-grade students how to write in cursive at Longfellow Elementary School in Pasadena.

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 ...

There are a lot of things about Common Core not to like, but perhaps the most viscerally unlikeable tenant of this leviathan educational system is the effort to eliminate cursive from elementary ...

Minnesota kids get national recognition for cursive skills WHITE BEAR LAKE, Minn. — As technology pushes us forward, putting pen to paper may seem like a thing of the past. But it's a passion ...

In some public schools, cursive writing is no longer taught to students. Bluffton, South Carolina, writer Jean Tanner thinks that's a mistake.