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.

Research suggests it may be possible to improve overall writing and reading through handwriting instruction.

these Greatest Generation guys were practically calligraphers — swirling cursive script, lines straight even on unruled paper. Beautiful penmanship, without necessarily writing skills to match. One ...

To handwrite letters or spell words in print or cursive, students need to commit multiple aspects of each letter to memory. For example, if students handwrite the word “cat,” they need to know ...

For now, they have the option to print or use cursive for ... picking up your pencil to go to each letter.” Durelli wants her class ready to use cursive writing by the end of the school year.

Letters to the editor often criticize the Donald Trump presidency and Republicans. This raises questions about LNP | LancasterOnline’s choices in seemingly publishing letters that align with its ...