Every Finnish pupil will be issued with a tablet on which they will learn how to touch-type and speed-text Credit: Photo: AFP/FREDERICK FLORIN/GETTY Speed-texting and touch-typing are set to reign ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. California elementary and middle school students could soon see a renewed commitment to teaching cursive writing in their English ...

This article is presented in partnership with CA Lottery. In an age when students can easily type 60 words per minute on their touchscreen devices, you would think that the art of handwriting would be ...

There are a lot of things about Common Core not to like, but perhaps the most viscerally unlikeable tenant of this leviathan educational system is the effort to eliminate cursive from elementary ...

The US state of Illinois has passed a law requiring school students to learn joined-up handwriting, or "cursive", overriding the governor's veto. It is no longer a requirement in US schools, and some ...

California elementary and middle school students could soon see a renewed commitment to teaching cursive writing in their English and language arts classes. Assembly Bill 446 would require cursive ...

Over the past decade or so, something big has been happening in public schools throughout the United States: Instruction in cursive writing has all but disappeared, cut from curricula as schools bring ...

For now, the traditional circle-and-stick style of handwriting is a thing of the past in at least three of Seminole County’s 25 elementary schools. In those schools, students in kindergarten, and ...