A bill that would mandate cursive throughout the entire state is winding its way through Harrisburg, sponsored by Republican ...

SAN MATEO, Calif — Monique McGowan sharpens a No. 2 pencil, straightens her posture and sharply slants her notebook to prepare for her weekly lesson in cursive. She and other third-graders at ...

Across the country, cursive writing had been substantially abandoned for more than a decade in favor of teaching elementary school students to type after they learned to print letters.

The curlicue letters of cursive handwriting, once considered a mainstay of American elementary education, have been slowly disappearing from classrooms for years. Now, with most states adopting ...

Context: In the past 20 years, whether schools should teach cursive writing has been frequently debated: In the mid-2000s and 2010s, cursive writing was largely discontinued in favor of typing skills.

Henderson, 44, said her son learned cursive basics in third grade but did not spend the hours that she did in school perfecting legible script and an attractive signature.

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 are in need of transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast ...

I e-mail co-workers who sit feet from my desk, and text rather than call. The only time I pen a handwritten letter is when I write to my grandmother. So when I hear people say that penmanship is ...

Cursive may be easier to write than print — for many, at least — but it’s harder to read. And besides, because so many cursive letters differ significantly from their printed equivalents, ...

Cursive writing may not have the power of prayer, sex education or evolution to create controversy for a school system, but the subject does stir heated argument.