Script is finding new life in after-school clubs where students can learn to loop and swoosh their handwriting.

In our home, we have a framed letter written by a Civil War soldier to his mother. That letter has been passed down for generations in my mother-in-law's family. In it, the soldier talks about the ...

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

TRUMBULL -- In careful, deliberate strokes, Matthew Page, 12, wrote "Go to Italy. See the Leaning Tower of Pisa." Jessica Taylor leaned over his shoulder and examined the loops of his capital "L". Not ...

Roxanne Thompson teaches educators the fine points on cursive writing instruction. Some teachers are back in class, learning to teach cursive writing. It’s been cut way back in our digital, ...

Cursive writing will once again be on the state's legislative agenda in the upcoming session of the Indiana General Assembly. After years of languishing in committee, the measure could get an extra ...

Teachers in San Diego are learning how to teach cursive, while the national debate over whether handwriting is obsolete rages on. The Handwriting Without Tears workshop Friday showed teachers the ...

When the Department of Education asked Floridians to weigh in on the state's English standards, residents roundly objected to one potential omission: cursive writing. The benchmark for forming those ...

PHOENIX — With eyebrows furrowed and fingers holding pencils in clawlike grips, third graders at Lowell Elementary School in Mesa were tackling an assignment involving one of the most controversial ...