Fourth-grade student Mandela Jones practices writing in cursive at Longfellow Elementary School in Pasadena. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) Erica Ingber has something of a dark past when it ...

A pair of bills filed for the 2026 Legislative Session would mandate students from second to fifth grade to learn how to write and read in cursive.

Learning how to write takes time, whether it is holding your pen properly or ensuring all the letters are on the same ...

Starting in the 1970s, and under the recent implementation of the Common Core, a former pillar of elementary education has been largely forgotten. But there’s a feeling that learning cursive still has ...

NEW YORK - Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools across the country after a generation of students who know only keyboarding, texting and printing out their words longhand. Alabama and ...

HB 127 would require all public school students in grades 2 through 5 to learn cursive and, for the first time, prove they’re proficient.

As the new school year begins, all those little hands in elementary school are once again at the center of a fierce debate: Is cursive writing a skill that’s still worth teaching, or an out-of-date ...

They can type 60 words per minute, text on cell phones in seconds and instant-message endlessly. What teens can’t do well, it turns out, is write in old-fashioned cursive. Ask about 40 high school ...

When Jack Lew was nominated to be Treasury secretary in 2013, President Barack Obama joked that as a condition of the appointment, Lew would have to learn to sign his name more legibly. The ...

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 ...