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 ...

Should schools teach cursive handwriting? The question is an impressively polarizing one in the K-12 education world. One of the most widely cited criticisms of the Common Core State Standards is that ...

Bring back the practice worksheets of yore, perfect that slant, and — please — loop those lowercase Ls and Gs. Just as phonics-based reading recently returned to favor after years of emphasizing whole ...

More than 40 percent of elementary schools in North Carolina are providing students with weekly lessons in cursive writing, according to a new report by the state education board. The board approved ...

Last week, elementary school students returned to the classroom in Archdale, N.C., with a new subject on the mandatory agenda: cursive writing. It’s a debate that has been simmering among experts, ...

LONG BEACH >> Jeff Price knows for sure his son can write a signature in cursive; he’s hesitant, though, to point out what else the child can write in script. Is the fifth-grader capable of writing a ...

Brianna Bell is a writer based in Guelph, Ont. At the end of June, while students and teachers were packing up their bags and dreaming of summer vacation, Ontario’s Education Minister Stephen Lecce ...