The statewide shift means students across Georgia will now practice cursive as part of their regular coursework.

Learning to write in cursive may no longer be popular in American schools, but education experts stress that the craft can be beneficial to students in more ways than one.

To teach cursive handwriting, or not to teach it, is a topic that can divide, but recently updated educational guidance in Ohio comes down on the side of teaching cursive handwriting.

Across the country, cursive writing had been substantially abandoned for more than a decade in favor of teaching elementary school students to type after they learned to print letters. This anti ...

Antonette Willemse, a cursive writing teacher at Lighthouse Paper Co., explained that cursive writing can help children develop handwriting-eye coordination, concentration, and self-discipline.