Break out the No. 2 pencils, kids. Cursive handwriting, long mourned as a lost art, is coming back to New Jersey schools ...

In one of his final acts in office, Gov. Philip D. Murphy signed a bill on Monday requiring third, fourth and fifth graders ...

Script is finding new life in after-school clubs where students can learn to loop and swoosh their handwriting.

Unlike probably most people, I enjoy the act of writing by hand — but I’ve always disliked signing my name. Why is that? I think it’s because signatures are supposed to be in cursive, or else they don ...

In our home, we have a framed letter written by a Civil War soldier to his mother. That letter has been passed down for generations in my mother-in-law’s family. In it, the soldier talks about the ...

Not so long ago cursive penmanship was the predominant writing form in classrooms. Now proponents like Cheyenne Charter are fighting a lonelier battle as cursive goes the way of classroom chalkboards ...

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