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For decades, teachers, parents and wider society recognised the importance of good cursive script. Beautiful handwriting has the ability to stop us in our tracks. We notice it, we admire it and many ...

A 6-year-old grips a pencil, tongue out in concentration, as she carefully forms the letters of her name. Her brain is quietly building connections. I recently watched a 4-year-old do this. It took ...

Not everyone is convinced cursive deserves a comeback tour.

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There’s no sugarcoating it, Ben Franklin’s method of learning to write is hard, but modern writers and scientists agree it ...

It is not every day that the laying off of a university bureaucrat generates a torrent of criticism from students, faculty, and alumni. But Jane Rosenzweig was not just any university bureaucrat, and ...

PHOENIX — Arizona will require public schools to teach cursive handwriting as one of a number of new education standards approved by the state Board of Education. The move amends state's current ...

With less than a week before students return, Baltimore County Public Schools has filled nearly all of its classroom positions but remains about 50 bus drivers short as Maryland’s third-largest school ...

In celebration of Constitution Week, the Georgia Department of Education is honoring 630 schools across the state for their ...