Your family is standing inside the rotunda at the National Archives Museum in Washington, D.C., looking at the original Declaration of the United States. It’s beautiful and awe-inspiring, but can your ...

Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card, looked at it and said, “I can’t read cursive yet.” Then he handed it to me to read. If you have a child ...

(The Conversation) - Learning to read and write cursive was once a rite of passage for practically every American schoolchild ...

A couple in Indiana developed a free writing academy to help young people learn how to write and read cursive handwriting. Twice a week, Terrell and Chelsea Wittington teach young students how to ...

On October 13, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill making cursive handwriting instruction mandatory in 1st through 6th grades. The legislation passed this year, but it could have just ...

Pennsylvania schoolchildren would have to learn how to write in cursive under a new bill passed by the state House of Representatives earlier this week. House Bill 17, introduced by Rep. Dane Watro, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pennsylvania is considering legislation that mandates cursive instruction in public schools. Angela Guthrie/iStock via Getty ...

Shawn Datchuk is an associate professor of special education at the University of Iowa. This essay from The Conversation is republished under a Creative Commons license. Recently, my 8-year-old son ...