My third-grade son is an anomaly. He actually enjoys a school subject, which -- much to our chagrin -- is being scrubbed from elementary schools nationwide. The subject in question is cursive ...

But is cursive like riding a bike or do we forget it instantly like virtually anything we learned in high school math? To find out, we asked 11 adults with varying degrees of cursive experience to ...

As recently as a half-century ago, young American students would spend many lessons writing curved loops and diagonal lines, as they learned how to write in cursive. Over the years, though, computer ...

Florida lawmakers are considering a proposal that would make cursive writing a required skill for elementary school students, ...

After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters in ...

If you're going to write a cursive sentence in Mary Beth Taylor's class at Parsley Elementary School, you have to prepare. Pencils rest on the desks in front of her fourth-grade students. Two fingers ...

The curlicue letters of cursive handwriting, once considered a mainstay of American elementary education, have been slowly disappearing from classrooms for years. Now, with most states adopting new ...