As I was taking notes for this column, I thought it fitting to write them in cursive, a skill I spent many hours mastering ...

“I like how my pencil feels on the paper when I write it,” Evi said from her classroom at Mary Queen of Apostles in New Kensington. “It’s very loopy.” Evi and her classmates are learning the art of ...

New Jersey and Pennsylvania are among the most recent states to require schools to teach kids old fashioned handwriting ...

Is cursive writing still being taught in America? Some states are starting to bring the old style back after disappearing. Cursive writing is a style of handwriting characterized by connected letters ...

Our ongoing series A More Perfect Union aims to show that what unites us as Americans is far greater than what divides us. In this installment, we look at the power of the written word. Common Core ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill on Oct. 13 mandating cursive writing instruction from the first through sixth grades Getty California students will have to go old-school when it comes to penmanship.

Is learning cursive writing essential for developing young minds, or is it an outdated skill being championed by nostalgic policymakers? The question sparked a lively and personal debate on a recent ...

Cursive writing, when done right, looks like art: Letters flow elegantly into each other, the pen or pencil never rising off nor smudging the page. It is pretty. It is formal. But is it useful enough ...

The year my daughter was born, cursive was axed from the national Common Core standards for K-12 education. For those of us in older generations, writing and reading cursive was a basic skill taught ...

The photo on page 4A of the Oct. 8th Times Union made me laugh a bit and cry a bit. In that photo, The Alliance for Quality Education has what I assume to be a logo on "blackboard" background, ...

I went to the Thomas & Mack Center for a high school graduation ceremony, and I noticed that the program listed all 600 graduate’s names, written in cursive. Funny, because the Clark County School ...