Baltimore County Public Schools aims to determine if a cursive handwriting pilot program for second- through fourth-grade classes can enhance writing fluency while increasing academic confidence.

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 ...

Justice B. Hill argues that despite technological advances, handwriting develops critical thinking skills that typing and ...

Should schools teach cursive handwriting? The question is a polarizing one in the K-12 education world. One of the most widely cited criticisms of the Common Core State Standards is that they don’t ...

The pen might be mightier than the sword, but it could soon be just as relevant. Educators and parents are observing a surge in US youths who don’t know how to read or write in cursive — which they ...

When my mother-in-law sends cards in the mail, my teenagers often ask me to read them her notes written in beautiful looping cursive. Neither of my two oldest children, ages 15 and 16, learned to ...

From top left, Pam Davidson, Kathy Rotto, Gloria Box and Sue Standlee, all residents at Presbyterian Village North in Dallas, write to third-grade students in Karen Gunter's class at Good Shepherd ...

Goodness, I hate writing cursive. Some people love it. They enjoy and admire the flourishes, the art and the discipline that go into writing “longhand.” (Does anybody use that word anymore?) My late ...

I came across a young man recently, a fresh high school graduate who had just turned 18. He was excited about joining the American electorate as a first-time voter. So he went to his local clerk's ...