Columnist Justice B. Hill writes that practicing cursive writing brings more than just good penmanship. Cursive requires ...

Nearly 40 years later, the admonishments of my second-grade teacher at Thomas Jefferson Elementary in Anaheim still ring in my ears. “Messy! Messy!” I was a precocious 8-year-old, placed in a ...

Treasure Coast lawmakers propose bills requiring elementary students to read and write cursive, reviving a skill dropped from state law in 2010.

It’s quaint to read how common it was in the late 1920s, when sound had just come to the movies, to assume it was just a fad. More than a few people thought films had been better without sound — that ...

Harvard professor Drew Gilpin Faust was teaching one of her undergraduate history seminars when she made a surprising discovery: Her students could not read cursive. "I just stopped in my tracks, I ...

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In our home, we have a framed letter written by a Civil War soldier to his mother. That letter has been passed down for generations in my mother-in-law's family. In it, the soldier talks about the ...

Elementary-school students would have to learn how to write in cursive, under a bill set to be vetted by a House committee ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Traditional handwriting is making a comeback in schools in one state after a new bill was just signed into legislation. On Friday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that will ...

Two Florida lawmakers, Fl State Rep. Toby Overdorf (R) and Fl State Sen. Erin Grall (R), have introduced bills that would ...

A married couple in Gary is launching a new program to bring back the art of cursive writing. Terrell and Chelsea Whittington created Cursive Academy while reminiscing about old memories from school.

The U.S. Constitution and other historical documents have been archived, reprinted and digitized many times to make them widely accessible and readable. Many public schools stopped teaching cursive ...