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 ...

(CBS) – Monday is National Handwriting Day, celebrated on the birthday of John Hancock. But nowadays, penmanship – especially cursive – is becoming a lost art. But some children are still using, and ...

“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 ...

The Ohio Department of Education and Workforce has spurred another debate on the worth of teaching cursive handwriting in the digital age by updating its five-year-old teaching guidance for ...

Harvard professor Drew Gilpin Faust was teaching one of her undergraduate history seminars when she made a surprising discovery: Her students could not read cursive. "I just stopped in my tracks, I ...

(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 ...

As elementary school students across California return from winter break, a new lesson plan will soon be on the way. Learning cursive is now required by state law. The new law took effect at the ...

WHITE BEAR LAKE, Minn. — As technology pushes us forward, putting pen to paper may seem like a thing of the past. But it's a passion for two Minnesota kids, and one that's landed them national ...

Goodness, I hate writing cursive. Some people love it. They enjoy and admire the flourishes, the art and the discipline that go into writing “longhand.” (Does anybody use that word anymore?) My late ...

No matter where you look, it seems like boomers can’t stop griping about the lack of cursive writing; kids today don’t do ...

Since the late 1800s, when the typewriter struck the first blow to penmanship, handwriting has become an increasingly obsolete skill, and therefore a powerful symbol of the past. It’s an idealized ...