A Virginia after-school cursive club went viral. More than two dozen states require cursive in their curriculums. Is it an ...

Florida lawmakers have approved new legislation requiring elementary school students to be proficient in reading and writing ...

BALTIMORE -- What do the U.S. Constitution, birthday cards and your signature have in common? They’re (likely) all in cursive. However, becoming fluent in this form of penmanship, once the hallmark of ...

The Times asked readers for samples of their cursive and to talk about their relationship with old-fashioned, longhand writing with its loops, curls and dips. A new law will require all California ...

The use of cursive writing has been fading from society since the arrival of the computer keyboard. Advocates of longhand blame the so-called common core education standards for hastening its demise.

Nearly 40 years later, the admonishments of my second-grade teacher at Thomas Jefferson Elementary in Anaheim still ring in my ears. “Messy! Messy!” I was a precocious 8-year-old, placed in a ...

Like it or not, cursive writing is returning to countless classrooms. At least half of the nation’s states have adopted policies requiring cursive writing instruction in recent years. That reverses a ...

NORFOLK, Va. (WVEC) -- For centuries, cursive writing was a pillar of elementary education and a crucial tool for recording and preserving history. Now, cursive barely is being taught. At the Williams ...

It’s a familiar refrain. Parents lament that technology is turning good, legible handwriting into a lost art form for their kids. In response, lawmakers in state after state – particularly in the ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — I’ll be honest: my handwriting didn’t come from ruler-wielding teachers in elementary school. It came from watching and mimicking my mother’s clear and elegant script. Her cursive ...

But is cursive like riding a bike or do we forget it instantly like virtually anything we learned in high school math? To find out, we asked 11 adults with varying degrees of cursive experience to ...