The bulletin board at the front of Melissa Balzano's classroom in West Orange is decorated with hand-written lists her students wrote in September, expressing their "Hopes and Dreams for Third Grade." ...

Leave it to the Answer Man to know if a cursive "n" has one hump or two. You’re partly right about cursive no longer being part of the curriculum. While the state hasn’t required cursive instruction ...

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Remember the days when you couldn't wait to get into second or third grade so you could write in cursive? Remember practicing the loops and swirls to make the capital L or the S? The Indiana ...

RALEIGH, N.C. — In the age of texting and tweeting, North Carolina’s elementary-school students soon could have to master a more old-fashioned craft: writing in cursive. A bill introduced in the state ...

Despite a directive by the Indiana Department of Education that cursive writing no longer is mandatory, many local educators say they are continuing to teach it as time allows, along with keyboarding ...

While working through new national education standards, known as Common Core, North Carolina legislators want to make sure students don’t miss out on “the basics.” The Common Core standards were ...

A Northwest Arkansas legislator’s bill has made cursive writing a hot topic of this year’s legislative session. State Rep. Kim Hendren, R-Gravette, proposed House Bill 1044, which would ensure all ...

Baltimore County Public Schools hopes to reverse this trend locally with a pilot program to reintroduce cursive instruction to second- through fourth-grade classes in November. More than 20 elementary ...

A House committee approved a bill on Tuesday that would require cursive writing to be taught in all elementary schools. Rep. Kim Hendren, R-Gravette, sponsored House Bill 1044 after realizing his ...

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, ...

Last week, elementary school students returned to the classroom in Archdale, N.C., with a new subject on the mandatory agenda: cursive writing. It’s a debate that has been simmering among experts, ...