Cursive, which you might have heard about from someone who lived in the old days, was also known as “making squiggly things” with your writing implement, ideally a quill, upon some yellow-stained ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. From Dr Monica Seeley. Sir, I found Gillian Tett’s article “Beyond the quill: why handwriting’s era might be ...

The Times asked readers for samples of their cursive and to talk about their relationship with old-fashioned, longhand writing with its loops, curls and dips. A new law will require all California ...

Sophomore Andrew Forbes of Nashville, Tennessee, used cursive everyday in elementary school, from third grade through eighth grade. He was required to write out all his papers, worksheets, and notes ...

As a new school year begins, many children will be returning to classrooms filled with brand new computers, tablets and other tools essential to prep students for life in a plugged-in world. But as ...

A recent study published in the Frontiers of Psychology suggests that cursive handwriting might be more effective in promoting learning than typing. The research, involving 36 students, examined brain ...

Anyone of a certain age can remember finally grasping the concept of printing letters, only to have the bomb of cursive writing dropped onto your desk not long after. For some, cursive was a way of ...