I went to the Thomas & Mack Center for a high school graduation ceremony, and I noticed that the program listed all 600 graduate’s names, written in cursive. Funny, because the Clark County School ...

Today is National Handwriting Day! When you think of handwriting, you may think of the way you write your name or your penmanship during notetaking but what about the way you write? In today’s time, ...

Is cursive writing still being taught in America? Some states are starting to bring the old style back after disappearing. Cursive writing is a style of handwriting characterized by connected letters ...

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, ...

To the editor: As a 77-year-old who won my school’s penmanship competition in fourth grade, I’m pretty happy that California kids will be learning cursive handwriting. (“Learning cursive in school, ...

Students' reading and writing suffer when they don't learn script. Why Students Need to Know Cursive Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card, ...

What do the U.S. Constitution, birthday cards and your signature have in common? They’re (likely) all in cursive. However, becoming fluent in this form of penmanship, once the hallmark of a good ...

Our ongoing series A More Perfect Union aims to show that what unites us as Americans is far greater than what divides us. In this installment, we look at the power of the written word. Common Core ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority from ...