Many schools now limit handwriting instruction, noting children are better off preparing for the real world, where nimble texting thumbs and quick typing fingers create most written communication. But ...

Script is finding new life in after-school clubs where students can learn to loop and swoosh their handwriting.

Starting in the 1970s, and under the recent implementation of the Common Core, a former pillar of elementary education has been largely forgotten. But there’s a feeling that learning cursive still has ...

How badly does 15 minutes a day for one third-grade semester impact other subjects? Not much. Why all the controversy? My third-graders loved to practice handwriting because I always wrote short, ...

SACRAMENTO - California elementary schools are now required to teach cursive in the classroom. It has not been a requirement since 2010, but many schools including a portion of classrooms at Stockton ...

COLUMBUS - In a world of Snapchat and text messages, cursive handwriting has gone the way of the dodo. Ohio lawmakers want to revive the lost art of penmanship. A proposed law, which passed the Ohio ...