The writing may be on the wall for something that used to be standard fare in our elementary schools. It turns out that the elegant script of cursive handwriting is barely being taught anymore.

At Arlene Hein Elementary in Elk Grove, the first lesson on the first day of the new school year is how to write in cursive.

Currently in South Carolina, a state law requires public schools to “provide instruction in cursive writing to ensure that students can create readable documents through legible cursive handw… ...

A Missouri school district says it may stop teaching students how to write in cursive because they say technology has made it obsolete. Do you think cursive is still a worthwhile lesson to teach ...

As for whether elementary schools will continue to include cursive handwriting in their lesson plans, some educators noted there was a possibility it could be phased out.

Practicing handwriting and writing cursive in school might seem like a lost art now that technology is being widely used in classrooms. However in Rapid City, teachers are continuing to work with ...

Proponents of cursive writing instruction say that although handwriting isn’t as much of a life skill as it was 20 or 30 years ago, students still need opportunities to learn and practice.

After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters ...

Is cursive writing a skill that's still worth teaching, or an out-of-date concept when most of life requires tapping on keyboards?