OLYMPIA — High schools could soon be required to offer coursework teaching students how to write a signature in cursive under a bill heard in the House Education Committee on Thursday.

Cursive may have fallen by the wayside, but Florida lawmakers want to bring it back — starting with a signature from Gov. Ron ...

New Jersey schools will now teach cursive writing to grades three through five, sparking debate over its relevance in a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pennsylvania is considering legislation that mandates cursive instruction in public schools. Angela Guthrie/iStock via Getty ...

The death of cursive has become a problem for voters and election officials. Young people who vote by mail and were never taught cursive risk having their ballots tossed if the signature they sign on ...

This basic life skill was phased out in 2010 with the introduction of the controversial Common Core curriculum — and our ...

LANSING, Mich. — Cursive writing, once a staple of elementary education, is vanishing from classrooms across the United States. A Michigan lawmaker is determined to reverse this trend, emphasizing the ...

HB 127 would put in state law a requirement to test elementary students on their ability to write and read cursive.

For young Americans, a written signature doesn’t mean much anymore — except when voting by mail, when a signature is critical to determining whether a ballot is counted. In California, voters younger ...