Teaching cursive is once again the law for kids in California — news that adults greet with celebration, nostalgia, scorn, indifference and head-scratching.

A 77-year-old who won an award for penmanship offers a compromise: Old folks teach kids how to write in cursive, and kids teach old folks how to use smartphones.

I'm going to try your favorite word of bark - Bark - I love writing a cursive B. I think they're beautiful. And if you watch me, my pen does not leave a single time.

I asked the people I interviewed to write 'Good Morning Detroit' in cursive, and pretty much everyone passed with an A. "I miss it sometimes so I think I am going to write in cursive a little bit ...

If you have a child in the Philadelphia School District, chances are they have not been taught how to read or write cursive either. But cursive handwriting is making a comeback of sorts for K-8 ...

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 ...

As schools have drifted away from cursive writing instruction, one Gary couple is launching classes in the flowing writing ...

Read: Don’t write off cursive. Yet the decline in cursive seems inevitable. Writing is, after all, a technology, and most technologies are sooner or later surpassed and replaced.

Cursive writing is a skill many of us learned growing up, but it's unfortunately not part of the mandatory curriculum in Michigan. As a result, many children are missing out on this valuable skill.