It was with great interest that I read “Write-off - Cursive handwriting no longer stressed at Eastern Iowa schools (April 26).” How sad. How many of us remember parents or grandparents who had ...

A request for a plan to ensure that cursive handwriting is taught in elementary school was approved Tuesday by the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education. Board member Richard Vladovic ...

A variety of educators and politicians across the country are pushing back against the death of cursive, resurrecting the rite of passage. Here's why. Ask anyone who completed third grade in the 1980s ...

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 ...

California schools would be required to teach students more cursive handwriting skills under Assembly Bill 446, which passed the Legislature and now goes before Gov. Gavin Newsom. Getty Images ...

“Research has shown that cursive handwriting enhances a child’s brain development, including memorization, and improves fine motor skills,” said California lawmaker Sharon Quirk-Silva, lead sponsor of ...

Have you written a letter or signed your name and then stopped, self-conscious about the state of your cursive? Can anyone really read this? Should I start over? Maybe I should just scribble something ...

Bring back the practice worksheets of yore, perfect that slant, and — please — loop those lowercase Ls and Gs. Just as phonics-based reading recently returned to favor after years of emphasizing whole ...

For 30 minutes each day, Mikayla Blalock’s fourth grade students at Samuel E. Hubbard Elementary School in Monroe County focus on what some consider a lost art in the digital age: cursive writing.