Yet we really have come to the end of an era, even so ... Some of my students write in cursive. Others use some form of print. One writes in all caps, another in a rather elegant modern italic.

But as schools go high-tech, the move may spell the end for cursive writing. The Common Core State Standards, a set of national benchmarks for American public schools, do not require students to ...

While cursive has been relegated to nearly extinct tasks like writing thank-you cards and signing checks, rumors of its death may be exaggerated. The Common Core standards seemed to spell the end ...

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 ...

I discovered that many educators are still teaching cursive writing to their classes – in fact, while cleaning out my oldest daughter’s backpack at the end of June, I found pages of cursive ...

In schools that still teach cursive, lessons are usually introduced at the end of second grade or beginning of third. But the cursive students learn now is a more modern style than the script used ...

Cursive handwriting is alive in North Carolina’s elementary schools – five years after state lawmakers required that students be taught what some advocates feared was becoming a long lost art.