Researchers say that handwriting is linked to academic success. Historians, like Morris, worry what is lost if people can’t ...

Why is that? I think it’s because signatures are supposed to be in cursive, or else they don’t count. At least, that’s what I was taught growing up. (And I’m really not that old ...

Cursive handwriting instruction started disappearing ... one of the lead writers of the English/language arts standards, told ...

Less than 10 years ago, only 14 states required schools to teach cursive— but that number has been steadily increasing , with 24 now having some kind of requirement.

Now, the school is ditching the 18th-century script for a more modern typeface. “Because cursive writing is no longer taught universally in K-12 education, the script — especially this highly ...