Two Colquitt County schools were among several recognized by the state Department of Education for their students' proficiency in cursive writing.

Jan. 23 is National Handwriting Day, invented by the Writing Instrument Manufacturers Association in 1977 and pegged to John Hancock’s birthday. On this day, Big Pen encourages you to “use a ...

The writing may be on the wall for cursive handwriting. With a growing number of schools opting not to teach cursive, it may be on its way to becoming a disappearing art. So one New Jersey ...

Moving forward, handwriting instruction for grades 1 to 6 is to include writing “in cursive or joined italics in the appropriate grade levels,” the law states. Advertisement The directive ...

And since all lowercase cursive letters begin on the line, fewer of them are likely to be reversed. The cons of cursive writing There are various reasons why people think lessons in cursive ...

A third-grader practices his cursive handwriting at P.S.166 in the Queens borough of New York. Mary Altaffer AP With the governor’s signature (no doubt in cursive), California Assembly Bill 446 ...

Although cursive handwriting is not as widely seen or as prominent as decades past, it has made a comeback in some classrooms.After Common Core standards no longer required that cursive be taught ...

Cursive writing is a long-held cultural tradition in this country and should continue to be taught; not just for the sake of tradition, but also to preserve the history of our nation.

B.C., Woodland Hills A: A new law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom requires California schools to teach cursive handwriting to elementary students in the first- through sixth-grades, beginning this month.