The Times asked readers for samples of their cursive and to talk about their relationship with old-fashioned, longhand writing with its loops, curls and dips. A new law will require all California ...

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 ...

Two and a half years ago, I presented a carefully thought-out argument for not requiring schools to teach cursive, calling it ...

“I like how my pencil feels on the paper when I write it,” Evi said from her classroom at Mary Queen of Apostles in New Kensington. “It’s very loopy.” Evi and her classmates are learning the art of ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Cursive writing is a skill many of us learned growing up, but it's unfortunately not part of the mandatory curriculum in Michigan. As a result, many children are missing out on ...

Have your children ever approached you and asked, “How/why do you write like that? I wish I knew how to do that.” We have. We’re talking about cursive writing, a skill that went by the wayside more ...

A third-grader practices his cursive handwriting at P.S.166 in the Queens borough of New York. Mary Altaffer AP With the governor’s signature (no doubt in cursive), California Assembly Bill 446 was ...

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 ...

The need for the ability to write in cursive is an exceptionally concerning problem for children and teens today. Many people in Generation Z do not know how to write in cursive, which is a scary ...

An Indiana Department of Education report due this Friday may add fuel to the debate for the return of compulsory cursive writing instruction at Hoosier public and charter elementary schools. Or, it ...

(WXYZ) — There's a big push to bring back cursive handwriting in Michigan. There are 21 states that have mandates for cursive to be taught in the classroom, but ...

The skill fell out of favor in schools, but states including Iowa are bringing it back and could see benefits, writes Shawn Datchuk.