New Jersey and Pennsylvania are among the most recent states to require schools to teach kids old fashioned handwriting ...

Pennsylvania students will soon join a growing number of their peers nationwide practicing the looping, connected script of cursive writing—part of a broader national revival of the once-standard ...

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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Hardly any Greater Cleveland school districts are still teaching cursive writing, but a number of readers believe it should be part of school curriculum. So does State Rep. Cheryl ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) – Cursive handwriting is being brought back to many Tennessee classrooms after state lawmakers voted to require it in 2015. Originally, common core standards did not include ...

It’s a familiar refrain. Parents lament that technology is turning good, legible handwriting into a lost art form for their kids. In response, lawmakers in state after state — particularly in the ...

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 ...

A student practices writing in cursive at St. Mark’s Lutheran School in Hacienda Heights, Calif.. Jae C. Hong AP file, 2012 Children in the Grand Canyon State will soon be writing A-r-i-z-o-n-a as one ...

The year my daughter was born, cursive was axed from the national Common Core standards for K-12 education. For those of us in older generations, writing and reading cursive was a basic skill taught ...

It’s a familiar refrain. Parents lament that technology is turning good, legible handwriting into a lost art form for their kids. In response, lawmakers in state after state – particularly in the ...