New Jersey and Pennsylvania are among the most recent states to require schools to teach kids old fashioned handwriting ...

Bonnie Morris has been keeping a journal for roughly 50 years. She used to read thousands of students’ essays for the Advanced Placement U.S. History exam. When she grades her students’ work, she ...

Several states in recent years passed legislation mandating instruction in cursive handwriting.

It’s a familiar refrain. Parents lament that technology is turning good, legible handwriting into a lost art form for their kids. In response, lawmakers in state after state — particularly in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What do the U.S. Constitution, birthday cards and your signature have in common? They’re (likely) all in cursive. However, ...

Missouri legislators are again pushing to make learning to write cursive mandatory for kids in kindergarten through fifth ...

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 ...

Pennsylvania students will soon join a growing number of their peers nationwide practicing the looping, connected script of cursive writing—part of a broader national revival of the once-standard ...

Cursive handwriting is alive in North Carolina’s elementary schools – five years after state lawmakers required that students be taught what some advocates feared was becoming a long lost art. A new ...

For centuries, the educated, wealthy and refined could be distinguished by their ability to put quill to parchment, vellum or paper and create beautiful, flowing letters. The delicately formed cursive ...