Each of the 15 students in Mollie Sweeney’s third grade class raised their dominant hand. Sweeney, a teacher at Burrell’s Bon Air Elementary, then walked through the motions of how to write a ...

Halle O'Brien writes during after-school cursive club, held by teacher Sherisse Kenerson, at Holmes Middle School in Alexandria, Va. (Anna Rose Layden for NPR) Twelve-year-old Sandi Chandee wants to ...

A new Florida law aims to strengthen the teaching of cursive writing in public schools. The cursive requirements are part of a sweeping education bill that was recently signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis and ...

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — It’s a skill that nearly disappeared during the pandemic. But inside one DeKalb County elementary school, students are proving cursive writing is far from forgotten. At Robert ...

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 ...

Twelve-year-old Sandi Chandee wants to be a doctor when she grows up. But that's not why she memorized one of the longest medical terms in the English language ...