Concerns over students not knowing how to form signatures has prompted one local group to question whether the state’s ...

Cursive started falling out of favor in U.S. schools after 2010 when most states adopted Common Core academic standards.

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 in ...

For weeks the students have been learning, and complaining, about cursive writing. Like Latin, it’s a dead language — er, lost art — and I was determined to resurrect it. The students completed ...

Philadelphia’s numbers were worse, with just 19% of fourth grade ... To handwrite letters or spell words in print or cursive, students need to commit multiple aspects of each letter to memory.

He said that today's teachers value typing more than handwriting and that by the 12th grade ... keeping cursive is how nice it is when you receive a beautifully cursive-written letter.