Dear Dr. Fournier My daughter is in third grade. Our biggest problem is spelling. She has a practice test on Wednesday. Then on Friday she has another test, but in dictated sentences, and is ...

To understand why cursive writing seems to be a dying art, you have to go all the way back to…well, only 2007, actually. It ...

A Virginia after-school cursive club went viral. More than two dozen states require cursive in their curriculums. Is it an ...

Several states in recent years passed legislation mandating instruction in cursive handwriting.

The Times asked readers for samples of their cursive and to talk about their relationship with old-fashioned, longhand writing with its loops, curls and dips. A new law will require all California ...

THE GATE CITY has been tied up in a cursive handwriting debate for a few weeks now, and the mini-drama continues. Around here, cursive is no longer required at the state level, but some on Nashua’s ...

There’s a glimmer of hope if you’re looking for last-ditch strategies to save your child from the halls of stupidity. A study published this week in the journal Frontiers of Psychology found that good ...

Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools across the country after a generation of students who know only keyboarding, texting and printing out their words longhand. Alabama and Louisiana ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fourth-grade student Mandela Jones practices writing in cursive at Longfellow Elementary School in Pasadena. (Christina House / ...

If we are serious about improving outcomes, we must strengthen every foundational literacy skill, including handwriting.