Camille Santos said cursive is "actually like doodling a little bit." Added Araceli Lazaro: "It's a really fascinating way to write, and I really think that everybody should learn about writing in ...

In this digital age, who needs to know how to read and write cursive? The State of Georgia says all third through fifth ...

NEW YORK - Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools across the country after a generation of students who know only keyboarding, texting and printing out their words longhand. Alabama ...

Cursive writing is making a comeback. After being made optional in 2006, cursive will return this September as a mandatory part of the Ontario elementary school curriculum. Education Minister Stephen ...

Readers debate the value of having children learn to write in cursive. Also: San Francisco today; nuclear threats; child care; domestic burdens.

Students would do well to learn cursive, advocate says By Dalina Castellanos, Los Angeles Times March 31, 2013 12 AM PT ...

At many Montessori schools, that is the belief. There, kids learn cursive as early as age 3—before they learn print, says Jesse McCarthy, host of The Montessori Education Podcast.

"Kids love to learn how to write in cursive," said Suzan DePrez, Mesa schools assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction. "It is a sort of rite of passage.

When Jack Lew was nominated to be Treasury secretary in 2013, President Barack Obama joked that as a condition of the appointment, Lew would have to learn to sign his name more legibly. The secreta… ...

Reading cursive matters, but even children can be taught to read writing that they are not taught to produce. Reading cursive can be taught in just 30 to 60 minutes -- even to five- or six-year ...

A desire to learn "real writing" by Lexi Drake led her grandfather, state Rep. Dickie Drake, to sponsor a bill requiring public schools in Alabama to show they're teaching cursive.