Leave it to the Answer Man to know if a cursive "n" has one hump or two. You’re partly right about cursive no longer being part of the curriculum. While the state hasn’t required cursive instruction ...

Starting in the 1970s, and under the recent implementation of the Common Core, a former pillar of elementary education has been largely forgotten. But there’s a feeling that learning cursive still has ...

More and more states are dropping handwriting from their core curricula. Jan. 24, 2011 -- The handwriting may be on the wall for cursive. At least that's what some people fear as schools across the ...

Nearly 40 years later, the admonishments of my second-grade teacher at Thomas Jefferson Elementary in Anaheim still ring in my ears. “Messy! Messy!” I was a precocious 8-year-old, placed in a ...

I've been amazed by the amount of backlash against this. NPR's Steve Inskeep and Michele Norris bemoaned it on Twitter. I've seen a lot of other negative reaction to it elsewhere. When was the last ...

This past summer, Tennessee state Rep. Sheila Butt got a call from a mother who said she wanted to talk about her son, a junior in high school. The woman explained that her son’s history teacher was ...

WARNER ROBINS, Ga. — Cursive writing is making a return to Georgia classrooms this school year, thanks to updated English Language Arts standards from the Georgia Department of Education. Starting ...