The Ohio Department of Education and Workforce has spurred another debate on the worth of teaching cursive handwriting in the digital age by updating its five-year-old teaching guidance for ...

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 ...

As politics editor Rick Rouan explained on the podcast: “Some recent research suggests that cursive handwriting forces kids to just slow down, think about word spelling and sentence structure ...

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But so is the toll my handwriting has taken over the years ... It’s time for a quick story: Once upon a time, cursive was a staple of American education. Then computers and smartphones stormed the ...

The Ohio Department of Education and Workforce recently updated its five-year-old guidance for school districts that want to teach handwriting and cursive. Some districts in Northeast Ohio are ...

Push to strengthen cursive handwriting A new bill being discussed this week in Tallahassee adds cursive writing to the statutorily required instruction for students in grades 2-5. FOX 13’s Regina ...

Attempting deftly executed handwriting is one such way that can be exciting and engaging for some students. In that sense, cursive is not unlike a choice that some schools could make to teach ...

“The handwriting needs to be improved, but the cursive writing is perfect.” In his close, Overdorf argued for cursive’s importance and timelessness. “In a world glued to screens, cursive ...

By the end of fifth grade, students will then need to have a written evaluation to show they are proficient in cursive handwriting. This comes as a growing number of school districts across the ...