Alec Falconer knew for years that he had a problem with words and letters. The young man who is now in 9th grade struggled in school for nearly a decade before his learning difficulty was diagnosed as ...

Across the country, many school districts dropped cursive from their curricula years ago. The new Common Core State Standards now being implemented in most states never mention the word "cursive." ...

Cursive has not been part of Michigan's curriculum standards since 2010. Rep. Brenda Carter, D-Pontiac, has reintroduced legislation to return cursive to the state's public schools. The effort to ...