Oh the hours I spent on the circles, round and round, row after row of circles created with a Number 2 pencil. Generally they were followed by slanted lines, up and down, up and down, always with a ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) – Cursive handwriting is being brought back to many Tennessee classrooms after state lawmakers voted to require it in 2015. Originally, common core standards did not include ...

The Common Core standards don’t require instruction in cursive writing but some states — including Alabama, Tennessee, Louisiana and California — have mandated cursive in public schools. With typing ...

PARENTS are not the only ones bemoaning the way so many schools have given up teaching children to write longhand. Researchers are also aware that more than mere pride in penmanship is lost when ...

This basic life skill was phased out in 2010 with the introduction of the controversial Common Core curriculum — and our ...

It’s a familiar refrain. Parents lament that technology is turning good, legible handwriting into a lost art form for their kids. In response, lawmakers in state after state – particularly in the ...

When Jack Lew was nominated to be Treasury secretary in 2013, President Barack Obama joked that as a condition of the appointment, Lew would have to learn to sign his name more legibly. The ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Hardly any Greater Cleveland school districts are still teaching cursive writing, but a number of readers believe it should be part of school curriculum. So does State Rep. Cheryl ...

KNOXVILLE (WATE) – Cursive handwriting is being brought back to many Tennessee classrooms after state lawmakers voted to require it in 2015. Originally, common core standards did not include cursive, ...