This basic life skill was phased out in 2010 with the introduction of the controversial Common Core curriculum — and our ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The swirling lines from Linden Bateman’s pen have been conscripted into a national fight to keep cursive writing in American classrooms. Cursive. Penmanship. Handwriting. In years ...

Georgia elementary schools will require cursive writing instruction starting this fall. This change aligns with a national trend of reinstating cursive in school curricula. The new standards expect ...

Stay on top of what’s happening in the Bay Area with essential Bay Area news stories, sent to your inbox every weekday. The Bay Bay Area-raised host Ericka Cruz Guevarra brings you context and ...

Research has shown that it helps children develop. But many parents say their kids aren’t learning cursive in school.

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 a good ...

“The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” is the sentence that won Daisy Almaraz, a Catholic school seventh grader in the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, a national competition. The sentence doesn ...

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Kids are spending more time on computers, phones and keyboards, and they are losing the ability to do the cursive handwriting that children have done for generations. "I never really ...

The Atlantic magazine recently ran an article on the demise of cursive writing, and judging from the letters to the editor, there are still many people who believe that the inability to write in ...

PARENTS are not the only ones bemoaning the way so many schools have given up teaching children to write longhand. Researchers are also aware that more than mere pride in penmanship is lost when ...