Many claim that cursive penmanship is a dying artform no longer being taught in schools. But for one teacher at Grand Traverse Academy, she makes it a priority in her curriculum for her third and ...

ST. LOUIS — A St. Louis-area fourth grader was chosen as the winner of a national handwriting contest. Evelyn Thompson from Kirk Day School was chosen as the winner of the Nicholas Maxim Award for ...

“I like how my pencil feels on the paper when I write it,” Evi said from her classroom at Mary Queen of Apostles in New Kensington. “It’s very loopy.” Evi and her classmates are learning the art of ...

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 ...

Caden Baune, a fourth-grader from the southwest Minnesota town of Lamberton, is already a three-sport athlete at age 9. But it’s his skill on the printed page that’s won him national recognition. The ...

Cursive handwriting is making a comeback in Tennessee, with performance benchmarks in the works to guide the teaching of the fading art to students. Proposed cursive standards that would begin in ...

Georgia's updated English Language Arts standards will require cursive writing instruction for students in grades 3 through 5. Third graders will begin learning how to read and write in cursive ...

If your kid can’t sign his or her name, here’s why: Most city public schools stopped teaching cursive handwriting years ago. The focus on high-stakes testing and rigorous Common Core math and reading ...