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 ...

As I was taking notes for this column, I thought it fitting to write them in cursive, a skill I spent many hours mastering ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 20150929 A Facebook post showing a teacher’s frustration with a 7-year-old student writing her name on an assignment in cursive ...

When given the opportunity to read the Declaration of Independence or the Bill of Rights, many local students would have as hard a time deciphering the documents as if they were written in Egyptian ...

NEW YORK — Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools across the country after a generation of students who know only keyboarding, texting and printing out their words longhand. Alabama and ...

What do the U.S. Constitution, birthday cards and your signature have in common? They’re (likely) all in cursive. However, becoming fluent in this form of penmanship, once the hallmark of a good ...

Over the past decade or so, something big has been happening in public schools throughout the United States: Instruction in cursive writing has all but disappeared, cut from curricula as schools bring ...

On a recent Tuesday night, I attended the parents’ open house at my daughters’ school, a Taft-era brick building in New Haven, Connecticut, which serves four hundred and fifty children, in grades ...

I write in cursive. I’m sorry to all my classmates who had to partner with me for physical worksheets for making our assignments half illegible to them. When I was in the third grade, I was taught ...

An out-of-state reader-friend recently reported being flabbergasted by a high school graduation invitation addressed in block lettering. My friend wondered if etiquette had disappeared from our ...