Taking classes on a tablet and typing notes into an app. Copying key points from reference books into smartphone memos. Such learning methods are becoming the norm. It certainly looks fast and ...

Pencil-and-paper asks more of a student than a keyboard. Maybe that’s the point, says expert on language and literacy ...

Since moving to Kyoto, I can barely read the signs of long-established shops. Not only are the characters written in a ...

Nine Lowndes County Schools have earned statewide recognition for their students’ cursive writing achievements through the ...

Learning to read and write cursive was once a rite of passage for practically every American schoolchild. Until the early 20th century, children in the U.S. were generally taught to write in cursive ...

Colleen Endrizzi fondly recalls when she first experienced the “lost language” as a homeschooled kindergartener. She learned it side by side with manuscript writing, a style in which letters are ...

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I remember the first time my second-grade teacher permitted me to use cursive writing on my assignments. At the time, I viewed it as an accomplishment: I could now use cursive for all my assignments!

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A new Florida law will require cursive writing to be taught between grades 3 to 5 starting the upcoming 2026-2027 school year. The law goes into effect on Wednesday, July 1, and ...

Florida public school students in grades 3 through 5 will be required to learn cursive writing — and prove they’ve mastered it — when a new state law takes effect July 1. Gov. DeSantis signed the ...