Every Finnish pupil will be issued with a tablet on which they will learn how to touch-type and speed-text Credit: Photo: AFP/FREDERICK FLORIN/GETTY Speed-texting and touch-typing are set to reign ...

There are a lot of things about Common Core not to like, but perhaps the most viscerally unlikeable tenant of this leviathan educational system is the effort to eliminate cursive from elementary ...

California elementary and middle school students could soon see a renewed commitment to teaching cursive writing in their English and language arts classes. Assembly Bill 446 would require cursive ...

(Aging Untold) — From signatures to family letters and historical documents, cursive has long been part of American life. But as keyboards replace pens, schools are still debating whether it belongs ...

This article is presented in partnership with CA Lottery. In an age when students can easily type 60 words per minute on their touchscreen devices, you would think that the art of handwriting would be ...

When was the last time you saw cursive letters on your computer screen, cell phone or tablet? No wonder students lose interest in cursive writing. By middle school or high school, most students print ...

Over the past decade or so, something big has been happening in public schools throughout the United States: Instruction in cursive writing has all but disappeared, cut from curricula as schools bring ...

Florida's new cursive requirement makes handwriting mandatory for grades 3-5, with proficiency required before middle school.