Is learning cursive writing essential for developing young minds, or is it an outdated skill being championed by nostalgic policymakers?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 ...

More than a decade after it was phased out in most schools, elementary school students in California will begin learning cursive writing next year — thanks to a new law. Let's take a moment now for a ...

STORY: Cursive is making a comeback in California. In an era of computers and tablets, the skill has fallen out of fashion. But a new state law requires students to learn the old-school style of ...

Jimmy Bryant is the director of archives and special collections at the University of Central Arkansas. April 30, 2013 In today’s society, people of all ages use e-mail and various forms of ...

If you have kids or attend school yourself, you might have noticed that cursive handwriting—that loopy, continuous written style popular in the 20th century and recently cast aside in favor of ...

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 ...

As school-age children increasingly rely solely on digital devices for remote- and in-class learning, many K-12 school systems around the world are phasing out cursive handwriting and no longer ...

Kate Gladstone is the founder of Handwriting Repair/Handwriting That Works and the director of the World Handwriting Contest. April 30, 2013 Handwriting matters, but not cursive. The fastest, clearest ...