Like many, I lost the ability to write fluid cursive, and my kids don’t care to learn it either. What does the loss of this ...

Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why. The flowing ...

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 ...

For well over a century, elementary school students were taught the loopy, fluid handwriting style called cursive. Then came the rise of digital devices, and schools began to prioritize teaching ...

As school-age children increasingly rely solely on digital devices for remote- and in-class learning, many K-12 school systems around the world are phasing out cursive handwriting and no longer ...

A recent study published in the Frontiers of Psychology suggests that cursive handwriting might be more effective in promoting learning than typing. The research, involving 36 students, examined brain ...

Nearly 40 years later, the admonishments of my second-grade teacher at Thomas Jefferson Elementary in Anaheim still ring in my ears. “Messy! Messy!” I was a precocious 8-year-old, placed in a ...

Florida's new cursive requirement makes handwriting mandatory for grades 3-5, with proficiency required before middle school.

Turns out the skill your teachers drilled into you never stopped mattering.

While cursive has been relegated to nearly extinct tasks like writing thank-you cards and signing checks, rumors of its death may be exaggerated. The Common Core standards seemed to spell the end of ...