Starting this school year, all Georgia students in grades 3-5 are expected to learn cursive, with the goal of reading and writing it by end of fifth grade. The state says cursive strengthens literacy, ...

The Iowa Reading Research Center has released a free cursive instruction online tool to help teachers and parents offer a ...

Learning cursive is good for children’s fine motor skills, and writing in longhand generally helps students retain more information and generate more ideas.

The speed and efficiency of cursive helps in the classroom, and research shows learning cursive contributes to brain development.

Teaching cursive is once again the law for kids in California — news that adults greet with celebration, nostalgia, scorn, indifference and head-scratching.