The bill would have students from 2nd to 5th grade learn how to write in cursive and then be tested on what they learned at ...

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BLUEFIELD, W.V. — In these days of electronic communication, many worry kids aren’t learning how to sign their name properly. Some lawmakers in West Virginia want to see a return to basics, at least ...

As the new school year begins, all those little hands in elementary school are once again at the center of a fierce debate: Is cursive writing a skill that’s still worth teaching, or an out-of-date ...

FRANKFORT — Cursive writing lessons could soon be making a reappearance in Kentucky schools. Common Core, the federal education initiative adopted in 2010, dropped cursive education, but the Kentucky ...

Starting in the 1970s, and under the recent implementation of the Common Core, a former pillar of elementary education has been largely forgotten. But there’s a feeling that learning cursive still has ...

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 / ...

These days, many school assignments are completed online and essays are typed before being turned in. But a new state law in Alabama requires that schools teach children how to write in cursive.