Is cursive becoming a lost art? The 2010 Common Core standards began omitting cursive instruction, meaning that many members ...

“Many of our private schools teach cursive writing,” Quirk Silva said. “I want the balance, that all of our students can access historical information.” Around the Bay Area, some districts ...

Unlike probably most people, I enjoy the act of writing by hand — but I’ve always disliked signing my name. Why is that? I think it’s because signatures are supposed to be in cursive ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The swirling lines from Linden Bateman’s pen have been conscripted into a national fight to keep cursive writing in American classrooms. Cursive. Penmanship. Handwriting.

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.

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

You may have learned cursive in school, but I was born in it — molded by it. The ascenders and descenders betray you because they belong to me. Both of my parents always seemed to be incapable ...

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 ...

Handwriting is taught in primary schools, with children expected to write in cursive “legibly, fluently and with increasing speed” by the time they leave at the age of 11. But the increasing ...

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