For many young people, “handwriting,” once essentially synonymous with cursive, has come to mean the painstaking printing they turn to when necessity dictates.

Pennsylvania is on track to mandate teaching cursive in elementary schools. The bill overwhelmingly passed the state house and moves now to the state senate. If it passes and is signed into law, ...

Cursive writing is still taught in some schools within the U.S., although, it's not nationally mandated or emphasized. In Louisiana, cursive is legally required to be taught in public schools.

Teach children to read cursive but teach them to write in a hybrid style typical of effective handwriters.

RALEIGH, N.C.—Across North Carolina and in dozens of other states, teachers are committing what once would have been heresy: They are writing off cursive script. At a growing number of schools ...

Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools across the country after a generation of students who know only keyboarding, texting and printing out their words longhand.

Cursive script for the Roman alphabet can vary from country to country and can reveal much about where and how you were taught, writes Adrienne Bernhard.

From the beautiful ornate script we associate with days gone by to the rise of texting—handwriting has come a long way in the past century.

Cursive handwriting might be a dying art, but a measure before the Tennessee House of Representatives attempts to save it in an era of keyboards and keypads. House Bill 1697 would require all ...

Legislation that requires cursive handwriting instruction in Pennsylvania schools was approved by the state House of Representatives, according to the bill’s sponsor, state Rep. Dane Watro, R ...

Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools across the country after a generation of students who know only keyboarding, texting and printing out their words longhand.