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 ...

Turns out the skill your teachers drilled into you never stopped mattering.

Teaching connected-style handwriting, otherwise known as cursive handwriting, has fallen out of fashion on many school curricula. Older generations have sometimes been shocked that some younger people ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- If cursive writing is a lost art, Debbie Younger may be the modern-day “Indiana Jones" of penmanship. The Fountain grandmother is on a new crusade to bring back ...

Easton Area School District children know their way around an iPad. But writing their names legibly? Not so much. That’s the assessment of Easton Area School Board member Meg Sayago, who said she ...

In an age where screens dominate classrooms and workplaces, handwriting might seem like a relic of the past. But research shows that putting pen to paper plays a crucial role in literacy development. ...

Should children be required to learn cursive? A New Jersey legislator says so. Assemblywoman Angela McKnight has introduced a bill that would require elementary schools to teach kids how to read and ...

Sierra Rivera and her older sister, Dahlia, were thrilled at the idea of baking up a batch of their grandmother’s pumpkin cookies for Thanksgiving, but when their dad gave them the handwritten recipe, ...

Although cursive handwriting “is a dying field,” as one teacher said, it has made a comeback in some schools, including one in Maine where two students won awards this month. By Jesus Jiménez For ...

Edbert Aquino is a national handwriting champion from New Jersey, where a lawmaker wants all public schools to teach the skill again. By Tracey Tully A fifth grader in New Jersey is a master of ...