Steve Graham, an education professor at Arizona State University and one of the top U.S. experts on handwriting instruction, said he has heard every argument for and against cursive.

Cursive started falling out of favor in U.S. schools after 2010 when most states adopted Common Core academic standards. Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother ...

Cursive handwriting could be poised to make a comeback in public schools, more than a decade after the practice faded from curricula around the country. NewsNation’s Elizabeth Prann breaks down ...

INDIANAPOLIS — State legislators remain divided over whether Hoosier students should be required to learn cursive handwriting. But this month the House and Senate agreed that the option of ...

To teach cursive handwriting, or not to teach it, is a topic that can divide, but recently updated educational guidance in Ohio comes down on the side of teaching cursive handwriting.

The Florida House unanimously passed a bill 113-0 on Wednesday that would require cursive handwriting in grades two through five and other proficiencies to improve their cursive penmanship. Rep. Tobin ...

The House Student Academic Success Subcommittee unanimously advanced a bill 17-0 on Tuesday that would require cursive handwriting instruction in schools for students in grades two through five as ...

The National Archives is looking for volunteers with the “superpower” of reading cursive to transcribe some 2 million pages of handwritten Revolutionary War-era documents. So far, more than ...

The Revolutionary War Pension Project is a collaborative effort between the National Park Service and the Archives to transcribe more than 2.3 million pages of pension files from the nation’s ...

If you’re not confident in your cursive deciphering skills, the National Archives has other tasks available, too—such as “tagging” documents that other volunteers have already transcribed.

Since then, though, there’s been a resurgence of cursive and handwriting education. Less than 10 years ago, only 14 states required schools to teach cursive—but that number has been steadily ...

"The Importance of Cursive Handwriting Over Typewriting for Learning in the Classroom: A High-Density EEG Study of 12-Year-Old Children and Young Adults." Frontiers in Psychology (First published ...