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 Maryland sixth grader received a national award for her handwriting.Freya Mojica was selected as champion for her grade in the Zaner-Bloser National Handwriting Contest."I practice a lot of drawing, ...

DANBURY, Conn. - Francesca Curatilo attended three camps this summer: wilderness, martial arts and - in the final days before the start of school - cursive. On a sunny morning, Francesca sat in a ...

Harvard professor Drew Gilpin Faust was teaching one of her undergraduate history seminars when she made a surprising discovery: Her students could not read cursive. "I just stopped in my tracks, I ...

PHOENIX – With eyebrows furrowed and fingers holding pencils in clawlike grips, third-graders at Lowell Elementary School in Mesa, Arizona, were tackling an assignment involving cursive writing.

STAUNTON — A few weeks ago one of the reporters at The News Leader received an envelope from someone with a story idea. She opened it and realized it was a handwritten letter in cursive. Her first ...

Handwriting still has a place in the digital age, its proponents say, and they hoped that what they billed as a “summit” on the subject this week would spotlight their case for the enduring value of ...

In our digitized world, where we carry keyboards on the phones in our pockets, handwriting is a dying art. QWERTY is a life skill. Cursive handwriting, increasingly, is an anachronism. Advertisement ...

Cursive writing, when done right, looks like art: Letters flow elegantly into each other, the pen or pencil never rising off nor smudging the page. It is pretty. It is formal. But is it useful enough ...

Have you written a letter or signed your name and then stopped, self-conscious about the state of your cursive? Can anyone really read this? Should I start over? Maybe I should just scribble something ...