(CBS) – Monday is National Handwriting Day ... a 4th Grade teacher at St. Edmund Elementary in Brooklyn. Only 21 states currently require cursive instruction, according to the National Education ...

In today’s time, we typically write in print format, but I remember a time when writing in cursive was a requirement. Cursive handwriting has long been cherished as a hallmark of eloquence and ...

Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why.

Corrections and clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the grade level when students at St. Anne’s-Belfield School are introduced to cursive writing. My mother ...

In 2010, cursive was omitted from the new national Common Core standards for K–12 education. The students in my class, and their peers, were then somewhere in elementary school. Handwriting ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill on Oct. 13 mandating cursive writing instruction from the first through sixth grades Getty California students will have to go old-school when it comes to penmanship.