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 ...

The writing is on the wall, and it’s not in cursive. Now, however, a new chapter is being written for cursive. Several studies have shown that learning cursive makes students better learners. Writing ...

The national education standards, Common Core, aimed to kill the teaching of cursive. But it is not dead—just wounded. Yesterday, I did a radio interview on WHO in DesMoines, which bills itself as the ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- If cursive writing is a lost art, Debbie Younger may be the modern-day “Indiana Jones" of penmanship. The Fountain grandmother is on a new crusade to bring back ...

STAUNTON — A few weeks ago one of the reporters at The News Leader received an envelope from someone with a story idea. She opened it and realized it was a handwritten letter in cursive. Her first ...

FULLERTON, California, Jan 27 (Reuters) - A generation of children who learned to write on screens is now going old school. Starting this year, California grade school students are required to learn ...

If you're like many digitally savvy Americans, it has likely been a while since you've spent much time writing by hand. The laborious process of tracing out our thoughts, letter by letter, on the page ...

Although cursive handwriting “is a dying field,” as one teacher said, it has made a comeback in some schools, including one in Maine where two students won awards this month. By Jesus Jiménez For ...