Bring back the practice worksheets of yore, perfect that slant, and — please — loop those lowercase Ls and Gs. Just as phonics-based reading recently returned to favor after years of emphasizing whole ...

Starting in the 1970s, and under the recent implementation of the Common Core, a former pillar of elementary education has been largely forgotten. But there’s a feeling that learning cursive still has ...

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. Alabama and Louisiana ...

ATLANTA — The 2025 school year in Georgia will start in late July or August, and this time it’s bringing back an older lesson plan for its newer students. Third through fifth graders will have lessons ...

As the new school year begins, all those little hands in elementary school are once again at the center of a fierce debate: Is cursive writing a skill that’s still worth teaching, or an out-of-date ...

FRANKFORT — Cursive writing lessons could soon be making a reappearance in Kentucky schools. Common Core, the federal education initiative adopted in 2010, dropped cursive education, but the Kentucky ...

When the Department of Education asked Floridians to weigh in on the state’s English standards, residents roundly objected to one potential omission: cursive. The benchmark for forming those loopy ...

State-mandated cursive writing lessons were among the casualties of the pandemic in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools last year, a new state report says. In 2013, the North Carolina General Assembly ...