Cursive – the pinnacle of quick and elegant penmanship, or just fancy, antiquated squiggles? However you choose to describe it, students in Louisiana’s public and charter schools will get bigger doses ...

To the editor: As a 77-year-old who won my school’s penmanship competition in fourth grade, I’m pretty happy that California kids will be learning cursive handwriting. (“Learning cursive in school, ...

Not everyone is convinced cursive deserves a comeback tour.

Erica Ingber has something of a dark past when it comes to handwriting: The future elementary school principal got a C-minus in cursive in the fourth grade. But she’s ready to follow the curvy ups and ...

Colleen Endrizzi fondly recalls when she first experienced the “lost language” as a homeschooled kindergartener. She learned it side by side with manuscript writing, a style in which letters are ...

What’s something kids can’t do, but teachers don’t teach? If you answered “cursive,” write a flowing capital letter “A” by hand on your report card. Once a staple of classrooms and correspondence, ...

Cursive writing was supposed to be dead by now. Schools would stop teaching it. Kids would stop learning it. Everyone would stop using it. The Common Core standards adopted by most states in recent ...