DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – What started off as a hand writing lesson has now turned into a friendship between a group of third graders from Good Shepherd Episcopal School and some seniors living at ...

Common Core educational standards no longer require students to learn cursive, but supporters of longhand writing refuse to let it die. Eleven states either require or encourage the teaching of ...

To understand why cursive writing seems to be a dying art, you have to go all the way back to…well, only 2007, actually. It ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) - When children text, their thumbs fly. But when it comes to holding a pencil and learning how to write small, tall and descending letters, many youngsters are all thumbs. Usually, ...

Nine-year-old Kelsey Mardis began learning cursive at the beginning of the school year with the rest of her classmates, and she enjoys it so much that she now has a favorite cursive letter — ...

Frisbee needs Mrs. House's help to sign his name! Watch as she teaches him how to use cursive letters to sign his thank you card. Rise and Shine is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, ...

Canadian children used to spend hours in the classroom perfecting their loopy letters in the name of cursive writing. But as classrooms embrace the digital age, school curriculums are slowly writing ...

Florida lawmakers have approved new legislation requiring elementary school students to be proficient in reading and writing ...

The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Francine Van Boxmeer ...

Our ongoing series A More Perfect Union aims to show that what unites us as Americans is far greater than what divides us. In this installment, we look at the power of the written word. Common Core ...