Students connect with seniors through letters in cursive Our ongoing series A More Perfect Union aims to show that what unites us as Americans is far greater than what divides us. In this ...

Cursive writing is still taught in some schools within the U.S., although, it's not nationally mandated or emphasized. In ...

A 77-year-old who won an award for penmanship offers a compromise: Old folks teach kids how to write in cursive, and kids teach old folks how to use smartphones.

Read: Don’t write off cursive Yet the decline in cursive seems inevitable. Writing is, after all, a technology, and most technologies are sooner or later surpassed and replaced.

Before students hunker down to take their SATs this spring, many will have an array of tools to help them with the exam. Flash cards, study guides and — cursive handwriting? For many, cursive ...

Every day for an hour, our teacher wrote sentences and paragraphs on the three slate blackboards in our classroom, and we dutifully copied them into notebooks, in cursive, with our leaky fountain ...

Have you ever tried to read your physician’s prescriptions? Children increasingly print their writing because they don’t know cursive or theirs is simply unreadable. I have a middle-school ...

A-hed Cursive Is Coming Back, Now That Kids Can’t Read Grandma’s Letters More than a decade after many wrote off the handwriting style, states are bringing it back ...

Unlike Palmer-style cursive, in which every letter is joined to another in a series of endless curves and loops, italic joins only some. That makes it a far more natural way of writing.

Proponents of cursive writing instruction say that although handwriting isn’t as much of a life skill as it was 20 or 30 years ago, students still need opportunities to learn and practice.

Friday's letters feature the challenges of cursive writing, the FBI search of Donald Trump's estate, Sen. Tim Scott's mainstream views, the VA health care system and buying land in the ...