Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. Goodness, I hate writing cursive. Some people love it. They enjoy and admire the ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — Pennsylvania teachers may soon have to dust off their old cursive instruction books. The State House passed a bill Tuesday that would mandate cursive education in all public ...

KENTUCKY (WKYT) - As students get ready to go back to school, some younger students will be picking up a familiar writing style. For today’s Good Question, Linda asks: With the new law requiring ...

ST. LOUIS — In 2010, more than 40 states adopted the same standards for English and math called the Common Core standards. Missouri and Illinois are among the states that have adopted the guidelines.

In the past 20 years, whether schools should teach cursive writing has been frequently debated: In the mid-2000s and 2010s, cursive writing was largely discontinued in favor of typing skills. However, ...

Florida lawmakers are putting pen to paper with a new push to make sure every elementary student can actually read Grandma’s handwriting, reviving a cursive requirement that’s technically already on ...

After her son died, State Rep. Brenda Carter (D-Pontiac) was sorting through some of the things that her son left behind, besides a whole lot of broken hearts, and came across a letter that he had ...

When Celia Batan sat down to write her graduate thesis, she started with one question: “What do we lose if we do not teach children how to connect letters instead of printing or typing?” On the ...