The curlicue letters of cursive handwriting, once considered a mainstay of American elementary education, have been slowly disappearing from classrooms for years. Now, with most states adopting ...

In 2010, in an effort to standardize the education curriculum across state lines, 41 states signed on to the Common Core State Standards Initiative. Cursive writing did not make the cut ...

If you answered “cursive,” write a flowing ... a writing-obsessed New Yorker and writing master who used the types of arcs and lines he witnessed in the natural world—like the shape of ...

For weeks the students have been learning, and complaining, about cursive writing. Like Latin, it’s a dead language — er, lost art — and I was determined to resurrect it. The students completed ...

Those records range from Revolutionary War pension records to the field notes of Charles Mason of the Mason-Dixon Line to immigration ... 14 states require that cursive handwriting be taught ...

State Rep. Toby Overdorf emphasized the significance of cursive writing, describing it as “a master key to our past, a rocket boost for sharp lines, and a ticket to adult independence.” ...

In classrooms, unfortunately, it has become common for cursive writing to function as a condition ... date that I was trying to place on the top line of the paper — what my teacher called ...

In cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a word are joined with connecting strokes, such as in a person’s signature. Cursive fell out of favor in U.S. schools over a decade ago.

So they’re working across party lines to change it. A bipartisan proposal to require cursive handwriting instruction in grades 3-5 in the state won approval from the state Assembly Education ...