Almost immediately, fluency improves and neural pathways light up. Yet, cursive for many of our students has been relegated to a bygone era, a nostalgic reminder of the past for their parents.

California elementary and middle school students could soon see a renewed commitment to teaching cursive writing.

An Indiana Department of Education report due this Friday may add fuel to the debate for the return of compulsory cursive writing instruction at Hoosier public and charter elementary schools.

I write in cursive. I’m sorry to all my classmates who had to partner with me for physical worksheets for making our assignments half illegible to them. When I was in the third grade, I was taught ...

Current standards in both Missouri and Kansas recommend — but don’t require — that cursive be taught in elementary school. Educators in those states are largely choosing to spend their ...