She can’t write cursive and she can’t read cursive,” Datanagan said. The fact is in this digital age many people think the ability to write in script is unnecessary. It’s become a lost skill.

At Greenbriar East Elementary, the cursive lesson is a hybrid of old and new. Students have pencils in hand, but their ...

How many people actually write letters anymore? Letter writing along with cursive script is going the way of the dinosaurs if it is not extinct already. With so many alternative and quicker ways ...

While these cursive primers generally honored their promise of dry eyes, the exercise of tracing dotted lines instead of keystrokes was contentious. Our teachers found themselves playing defense ...

Don't Write Off Cursive Teaching kids how to write in script is no longer a priority in American schools, but it should be.

Block script, the thinking goes, is a necessary evil. Cursive is just unnecessary. This is wrongheaded in ways that illustrate how public policy often emerges from bad futurism.

The St. Louis Pen Show runs from Thursday, June 22, to Sunday, June 25, at the Sheraton Westport Chalet Hotel in St. Louis County.

Learn how the Springwell Senior Center collaborates with the National Archives to preserve cursive script documents for future generations.

Cursive writing, also known as script, was taught in public schools for generations. Technology and pressing demands in the classroom are cited for the nationwide decline in the craft. Senate ...