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 ...

Every October, high-school students across the country take the PSAT, or Practice SAT, a standardized test developed by College Board that provides high school students a chance to enter scholarship ...

The swirling lines from Linden Bateman’s pen have been conscripted into a national fight to keep cursive writing in American classrooms. In years gone by, it helped distinguish the literate from the ...

Common Core standards do not call for cursive instruction as mandatory part of curriculum At least 41 states do not require public schools to teach cursive reading or writing The standards promote ...

Is cursive writing still being taught in America? Some states are starting to bring the old style back after disappearing. Cursive writing is a style of handwriting characterized by connected letters ...

While cursive writing may or may not be a part of children's curriculum now, believe us when we tell you it is indeed a wonderful practice and simply not just a waste of time. Trust us, cursive ...

Pennsylvania elementary schools will soon be required to add cursive writing to their curriculum as state officials respond to concerns that too many young people can’t read handwriting or add their ...

The loops and curls of cursive handwriting have all but vanished from college essay exam blue books. On rare occasions when college students write by hand, nearly all of them use what educators call ...

Two hundred and fifty years ago in Pennsylvania, the Declaration of Independence was written and signed in cursive. Now, schools across the commonwealth are mandated to teach that style of handwriting ...