In California, students between first and sixth grade will learn to write in cursive under a new state law. Yes, cursive. But is cursive a skill that students or adults actually need? Try out ...

Almost all of us of a certain age wrote everything in cursive, at least until no one forced us to do it anymore when some of us… well, never mind that. The point now is, what seems to be a ...

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

If we do handwrite something ... So why bother to learn cursive instead of just a nice-looking print hand? Simply put, once you know what’s going on in cursive, you know what to look for ...

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.

Cursive. Penmanship. Handwriting ... Writing Project surveyed still said they “encourage their students to do at least some of their writing by hand.” Teachers gave two primary reasons ...

After the school was chartered in 1782, making it the first college to do so after the United States ... for a more modern typeface. “Because cursive writing is no longer taught universally ...