Cursive started falling out of favor in U.S. schools after 2010 when most states adopted Common Core academic standards.

To handwrite letters or spell words in print or cursive, students need to commit multiple aspects of each letter to memory. For example, if students handwrite the word “cat,” they need to know ...

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 ...

After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters in ...

How often do you handwrite and for what purpose? Perhaps you’ll write a birthday card, notes or a shopping list. No matter ...

State legislators on the House Education Committee passed a bill requiring AEDs to be present at schools and school sporting events.