In one of his final acts in office, Gov. Philip D. Murphy signed a bill on Monday requiring third, fourth and fifth graders ...

In our home, we have a framed letter written by a Civil War soldier to his mother. That letter has been passed down for generations in my mother-in-law’s family. In it, the soldier talks about the ...

Script is finding new life in after-school clubs where students can learn to loop and swoosh their handwriting.

The Ohio Department of Education and Workforce has spurred another debate on the worth of teaching cursive handwriting in the digital age by updating its five-year-old teaching guidance for ...

Florida lawmakers are putting pen to paper with a new push to make sure every elementary student can actually read Grandma’s handwriting, reviving a cursive requirement that’s technically already on ...

Not so long ago cursive penmanship was the predominant writing form in classrooms. Now proponents like Cheyenne Charter are fighting a lonelier battle as cursive goes the way of classroom chalkboards ...