It is with great amusement that I read of our state Legislature focusing on what really matters. Specifically, some lawmakers want to make the teaching of cursive writing mandatory for public schools, ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- If cursive writing is a lost art, Debbie Younger may be the modern-day “Indiana Jones" of penmanship. The Fountain grandmother is on a new crusade to bring back ...

Last academic year, Samuel E. Hubbard Elementary received the John Hancock Award from the state for demonstrating excellence in cursive instruction, "a skill that builds fine motor strength, enhances ...

Re “What’s the Point of Teaching Cursive?,” by John McWhorter (Opinion, nytimes.com, Dec. 13): The idea that most cursive documents will be “transliterated into print” is fine until you realize that ...

Elementary school kids might be required once again to learn how to read and write in cursive. A pair of bills (HB 127 and SB 444) filed for the 2026 Legislative Session would mandate ...

MEQUON -- Should Wisconsin schools teach cursive? This week, the State Assembly signed on to that. Common core and state standards call for kids to learn keyboarding, but it doesn't require cursive.

LANSING, MI – State Rep. Brenda Carter held up a letter from her late son, Brian, who wrote when he was 9 years old that he wanted to be a police officer. Brian grew up to be an Army veteran, the ...

I would like to see the new Charleston County School District superintendent impose some new learning objectives for all students in grades 2-12. Teach the students cursive writing. There is an entire ...

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 ...

To the editor: As a 77-year-old who won my school’s penmanship competition in fourth grade, I’m pretty happy that California kids will be learning cursive handwriting. (“Learning cursive in school, ...

A bill that would require elementary school students in New Jersey to learn how to read and write cursive has gained the backing of state Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin. “Great idea,” Coughlin, ...

Most of us have heard the phrase: “You write like a doctor.” That means an individual’s penmanship is so sloppy that it’s difficult to read. Doctors have a reputation for poor penmanship but not to ...