COLUMBUS, Ohio — The swirling lines from Linden Bateman’s pen have been conscripted into a national fight to keep cursive writing in American classrooms. Cursive. Penmanship. Handwritin… ...

Cursive handwriting takes patience, and teaching kids patience can have wonderful spin-off effects. Not everything we learned in past generations is as applicable today.

Cursive advocates cite recent brain science that indicates the fluid motion employed when writing script enhances hand-eye coordination and develops fine-motor skills, in turn promoting reading ...

But at least seven of the 45 states that adopted the standards are fighting to restore the cursive instruction. When the new Common Core educational standards were crafted, penmanship classes were ...

The swirling lines from Linden Bateman’s pen have been conscripted into a national fight to keep cursive writing in American classrooms. Cursive. Penmanship. Handwriting. In years gone by, it ...

The swirling lines from Linden Bateman s pen have been conscripted into a national fight to keep cursive writing in American classrooms. Cursive. Penmanship. Handwriting. In years gone by, it ...

Cursive writing faded out when states adopted the “Common Core State Standard”, also known as the CCSS, rolled out in 2010. The goal for common core was to make K-12 education more cohesive ...

The swirling lines from Linden Bateman’s pen have been conscripted into a national fight to keep cursive writing in American classrooms. Cursive. Penmanship. Handwriting. In years gone by, it ...

In some public schools, cursive writing is no longer taught to students. Bluffton, South Carolina, writer Jean Tanner thinks that's a mistake.