It was with great interest that I read “Write-off - Cursive handwriting no longer stressed at Eastern Iowa schools (April 26).” How sad. How many of us remember parents or grandparents who had ...

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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 ...

Is cursive an outdated and unnecessary facet of American education? Once again, Common Core is causing an academic stir—this time surrounding its exemption of cursive from required curricula. Instead, ...

The Illinois House of Representatives approved a bill to require cursive writing to be taught in elementary schools and high schools by a bipartisan 67-48 vote. The bill was sent to the Senate for ...

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 ...

While today’s norm for communicating may boil down to 140 characters and a constellation of emojis, black women around the world have answered a North Carolina-based collective’s call to take up their ...