The day Suzanne Bowland learned that cursive handwriting had died at her son’s Denver Public School, she vowed to take matters into her own hands. Literally. “I was shocked and disappointed,” said ...

The Times asked readers for samples of their cursive and to talk about their relationship with old-fashioned, longhand writing with its loops, curls and dips. A new law will require all California ...

Teaching writing to kids is the next step of learning after they are strong with picture identification skills. It usually begins with pattern writing and then moves on to letter writing, sentence ...

If you have kids or attend school yourself, you might have noticed that cursive handwriting—that loopy, continuous written style popular in the 20th century and recently cast aside in favor of ...

Today is National Handwriting Day! When you think of handwriting, you may think of the way you write your name or your penmanship during notetaking but what about the way you write? In today’s time, ...

Should schools teach cursive handwriting? The question is an impressively polarizing one in the K-12 education world. One of the most widely cited criticisms of the Common Core State Standards is that ...

Erica Ingber has something of a dark past when it comes to handwriting: The future elementary school principal got a C-minus in cursive in the fourth grade. But she’s ready to follow the curvy ups and ...

It’s fun Friday in Jill Davis’ third-grade classroom in Mechanicsburg. Students start their day playing a game that puts their cursive writing skills to the test. Called “here comes the judge,” the ...

For centuries, “reading and writing and ‘rithmetic” have provided indelible ink of academic success. Yet without much fanfare, cursive writing, long an educational cornerstone, is slipping away from ...

Cursive is more than an artistic flourish; it’s a cognitive powerhouse. Research shows that writing by hand engages a symphony of neural pathways—activating fine motor skills, cognitive processing, ...