For the tech-savvy youth of today, reading and writing cursive is a skill viewed as almost entirely obsolete. Save for handwritten name cards adorning a wedding reception table, most don’t see the ...

Many Erie County students will be learning a new subject this school year as cursive handwriting returns to Pennsylvania ...

From the start of 2024, the state of California reinstated the requirement that first through sixth graders in public schools learn to write in cursive. The handwriting technique stopped being taught ...

Fifth-grade students at Edward L. Whigham Elementary School write their names on certificates on Nov. 14, 2024, in Cutler Bay. Sophia Bolivar sophiabolivar@outlook.com Over the weekend, I visited the ...

International Handwriting Week started Jan. 17, culminating on Jan. 23, the birthday of John Hancock. Hancock signed his name boldly on the Declaration of Independence. Sadly, many of our children ...

As the saying goes, everything old is new again. That certainly applies to the decision by Baltimore County Public Schools to bring cursive writing back to classrooms after the summer break. Second ...

Many people of a certain age remember practicing loops and waves, moving our small hands clutching pencils across pages with light blue dotted and solid lines. But in many schools, that elementary ...

The florid script used to pen the personal correspondences of generations of literate Americans - including the Declaration of Independence - is slowly leaving American classrooms. Last year Wisconsin ...

Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card, looked at it and said, “I can’t read cursive yet.” Then he handed it to me to read. If you have a child ...