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 ...

The swirling lines from Linden Bateman’s pen have been conscripted into a national fight to keep cursive writing in American classrooms. Cursive. Penmanship. Handwriting. In years gone by, it helped ...

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, ...

A bill that would make cursive instruction mandatory for New Jersey elementary school students is on Gov. Phil Murphy's desk.

When it comes to the ways people communicate, the writing is on the wall — and it isn’t handwriting. Each new generation relies less on pen and paper to put down words and more on keyboards and ...

At Holmes Middle School in Alexandria, the after-school Cursive Club meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Since the club started ...

"Here, as in many countries, the general approach to teaching writing is based on tradition rather than on educational research that has proven benefits," says the professor. For generations, most ...

LOS ANGELES -- Erica Ingber has something of a dark past when it comes to handwriting: The future elementary school principal got a C-minus in cursive in the fourth grade. But she's ready to follow ...

In response to a growing trend where public schools are dropping the teaching of cursive, I wrote a blog post defending the value of learning cursive. 1 The new Common Core standards, adopted by 45 ...

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 ...

The use of pencils, pens, paper workbooks and textbooks — along with the teaching of cursive handwriting and a stipulation ...