Jimmy Bryant is the director of archives and special collections at the University of Central Arkansas. April 30, 2013 In today’s society, people of all ages use e-mail and various forms of ...

Is learning cursive writing essential for developing young minds, or is it an outdated skill being championed by nostalgic policymakers? The question sparked a lively and personal debate on a recent ...

A variety of educators and politicians across the country are pushing back against the death of cursive, resurrecting the rite of passage. Here's why. Ask anyone who completed third grade in the 1980s ...

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — It’s a skill that nearly disappeared during the pandemic. But inside one DeKalb County elementary school, students are proving cursive writing is far from forgotten. At Robert ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Children in first through sixth grade will ...

The National Archives is brimming with historical documents written in cursive, including some that date back more than 200 years. But these texts can be difficult to read and understand—particularly ...

If you have kids or attend school yourself, you might have noticed that cursive handwriting—that loopy, continuous written style popular in the 20th century and recently cast aside in favor of ...

Second-grader Caedmon Craig is attempting to write in cursive, and he is being helped by his mother. But a lot of erasing is happening at this kitchen table in Prattville, Ala. This school year ...

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 ...

Common Core standards do not call for cursive instruction as mandatory part of curriculum At least 41 states do not require public schools to teach cursive reading or writing The standards promote ...

Kate Gladstone is the founder of Handwriting Repair/Handwriting That Works and the director of the World Handwriting Contest. April 30, 2013 Handwriting matters, but not cursive. The fastest, clearest ...

But is cursive like riding a bike or do we forget it instantly like virtually anything we learned in high school math? To find out, we asked 11 adults with varying degrees of cursive experience to ...