Cursive started falling out of favor in U.S. schools after 2010 when most states adopted Common Core academic standards.

The skill fell out of favor in schools, but states including Iowa are bringing it back and could see benefits, writes Shawn ...

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 ...

We also want to know how learning cursive affects the development of reading and writing skills. In cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a word are joined with connecting strokes ...

This bill, filed on Feb. 23 by State Rep. Tobin Overdorf (R-Palm City), aims to expand cursive-writing requirements in the state’s public schools for students in grades two through five.

The measure would make cursive writing mandatory in elementary schools during the next academic year, citing brain development and cultural heritage. Once considered a dying craft, cursive writing may ...

The Arizona Jewish Post won two awards recently from the Arizona Newspapers Association. In the ANA’s 2017 Better Newspapers Contest, AJP Staff Writer David J. Del Grande took third place in the Best ...