Editor’s note: Editor Brenda Linert is on vacation this week. This “From the editor’s desk” column was first published in 2015. My newspaper recently published a story by education reporter Margaret ...

A bill that would require elementary school students in New Jersey to learn how to read and write cursive has gained the backing of state Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin. “Great idea,” Coughlin, ...

Re “What’s the Point of Teaching Cursive?,” by John McWhorter (Opinion, nytimes.com, Dec. 13): The idea that most cursive documents will be “transliterated into print” is fine until you realize that ...

A teacher demonstrates the cursive J in her third grade class in a file photo. Robert Willett [email protected] North Carolina House Republicans want to use the state budget to delay new ...

As followers of education controversies know by now, the Common Core academic standards, soon to be carried out by 45 states, don't require the teaching of cursive handwriting. The curricular gap has ...

Cursive writing is going the way of the floppy disc, photographic film and cassette tapes, we said. Whoa - not so fast, you responded. Two state lawmakers have introduced a bill requiring school ...

The art of cursive handwriting may be losing stature in the digital age, but the Kansas State Board of Education says it still has a place in public schools. The board agreed unanimously Wednesday to ...