CONCORD, N.H. (CBS/AP) — Senators have passed a bill requiring public schools to continue teaching cursive and multiplication tables. The bill is aimed at making sure schools maintain those skills as ...

A bill that would require South Carolina students to learn how to read and write cursive and memorize multiplication tables comes up for a vote Tuesday at the Statehouse. North Carolina passed a ...

ARE ON BOARD. IT’S A HOT TOPIC AMONG ADULTS IN MANCHESTER. THINK IT’S REDUNDANT, THINK IT’S A GREAT IDEA. SHOULD STUDENTS STILL LEARN CURSIVE AND MEMORIZE MULTIPLICATION TABLES? I MEAN, THINK THAT’S ...

North Carolina legislators say they want public schools to get "back to basics" by ensuring they teach cursive writing and rote multiplication in elementary school.The Senate gave final approval ...

Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, D-Bronx, speaks on the Assembly floor in March. It’s been a while since some school districts have used old-school multiplication tables. Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, ...

Lawmakers are taking up education issues this year that go beyond the big ones, such as adequate funding, school safety, and school vouchers. The instruction of cursive writing and multiplication ...

In lots of school systems around the country, cursive writing and multiplication tables have gone the way of the encyclopedia. But in North Carolina, one bill would change that. No weather data ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - A state lawmaker from Beaufort County wants to require South Carolina schools to teach students how to write in cursive. State Rep. Michael Rivers, D-Beaufort, prefiled the ...

As school goes back for another year, educators defend the relevance of two traditional skills they say remain key in the age of smart phones and keyboards. A 15-year-old at the family dinner table ...