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

To the editor: Gustavo Arellano's column on his traumatic experience learning cursive in the second grade brought back ...

“On team cursive, advocates point to the many studies that have shown that learning cursive not only improves retention and ...

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.

Maybe it was the fact that in the States, there’s no real rite of passage attached to learning to write in either script or cursive, except that you escaped the bad marks in the penmanship ...

Each week, two readers discuss a hot topic in a parliamentary-style debate that doesn’t necessarily reflect their personal ...

Learning Disabilities ... And you never know when cursive will be useful.

The US state of Illinois has passed a law requiring school students to learn joined-up handwriting, or "cursive", overriding the governor's veto. It is no longer a requirement in US schools ...

The legibility of cursive signatures on mail-in ballot envelopes could well become a disenfranchisement problem.

Rep. Deborah Hobson, sponsor of the New Hampshire bill, said she was encouraged by research that suggest cursive writing “primes the brain for learning.” “One scientist said that pen and ...