Judith Thurman has penned a plea to preserve the dying art of cursive in the New Yorker's Page-Turner blog. It's a plea complete with the image of another historical artifact, the Declaration of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Times asked readers for samples of their cursive and to talk about their relationship with old-fashioned, longhand writing ...

Years after it was omitted from the Common Core standards, some students are practicing cursive in clubs after school and in ...

Mary Lynne Patrick instructed her kindergartners to draw the letter “q” in the air, and 13 small hands made loops and curlicues overhead. School lessons in cursive writing typically begin in second or ...

"Here, as in many countries, the general approach to teaching writing is based on tradition rather than on educational research that has proven benefits," says the professor. For generations, most ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Twenty-three second-graders file into Virginia Edwards’ technology classroom at Grant Ranch School, take a seat at their iMacs, pull on headphones and launch ...

Children in first through sixth grade will now be required to learn cursive handwriting after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 446 into law on Oct. 13. The bill turned law was introduced by ...

In response to a growing trend where public schools are dropping the teaching of cursive, I wrote a blog post defending the value of learning cursive. 1 The new Common Core standards, adopted by 45 ...

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 ...