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 ...

NEW YORK >> 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. Alabama ...

Writing in cursive might be a lost art in the next few decades. While it was a school staple in elementary grades, it fell out of favor in the last few years. Currently, only 23 states require that ...

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 ...

It’s a familiar refrain. Parents lament that technology is turning good, legible handwriting into a lost art form for their kids. In response, lawmakers in state after state – particularly in the ...

At Arlene Hein Elementary in Elk Grove, the first lesson on the first day of the new school year is how to write in cursive.Laure Viglione has been teaching cursive for the past 38 years and considers ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- If cursive writing is a lost art, Debbie Younger may be the modern-day “Indiana Jones" of penmanship. The Fountain grandmother is on a new crusade to bring back ...

Calligraphy enthusiasts, rejoice: Cursive is officially making a comeback. Arizona is to become the first state with foundational writing standards, making cursive a curriculum-sanctioned area of ...

A variety of educators and politicians across the country are pushing back against the death of cursive, resurrecting the rite of passage. Here's why. Ask anyone who completed third grade in the 1980s ...

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 ...

Microsoft Word offers a variety of cursive and handwriting fonts (or typefaces, which is the more accurate name for the different font styles), and they’re actually provided by the operating system ...