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

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 ...

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

Philadelphia’s numbers were worse, with just 19% of fourth grade students scoring proficient or above. Research suggests it may be possible to improve overall writing and reading through handwriting ...