Cursive writing is still taught in some schools within the U.S., although, it's not nationally mandated or emphasized. In ...

Kayla Schweitzer, 7, just thought cursive was fancy and pretty and might be useful someday. “Like when you’re older and you’re famous,” she said, “you’ll know how to do your signature.” ...

Cursive – the pinnacle of quick and elegant penmanship, or just fancy, antiquated squiggles? However you choose to describe it, students in Louisiana’s public and charter schools will get ...

A proposed bill to bring back cursive writing and reading in Michigan classrooms has been introduced to the Michigan ...

Just how long have humans been using cursive writing? Scholars credit Niccolo Niccoli, a 15th Century Italian, for “inventing” our modern-day cursive, although it had been evolving long… ...

We learn things best as children, and they stay with us for a lifetime. Multiplication tables. How to tie shoes. Tell time. These are basic skills, and they’re locked in. I’m told you never ...

NEW YORK — Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools across the country after a generation of students who know only keyboarding, texting and printing out their words longhand ...

The Sad Decline of Cursive ... beautiful f’s that in my mind resembled fairy tale princesses wearing fancy hats while ... We were strictly forbidden to use block letters on our ...

A 77-year-old who won an award for penmanship offers a compromise: Old folks teach kids how to write in cursive, and kids teach old folks how to use smartphones.

SOMERSET — From educational requirement to after-school activity, cursive writing is making a comeback ... “It looks really fancy,” said student Noelle Jean, age 8.