DENVER -- You may want to hold off before sending a handwritten note to your grandchild. That's because a growing number of young people can no longer read cursive. Since the U.S. adopted Common ...

Cursive is for when you have nothing else to do, or want to live out some steampunk fantasy. Typing, voice dictation technology or my usual chicken scratch would’ve done the job far faster.

But now, California is one of many states bringing cursive back to the classroom. As of this year, over 20 states now require a cursive writing curriculum, the Bee reported. Gov. Gavin Newsom recently ...

It’s good for our minds! Research suggests that printing letters and writing in cursive activate different parts of the brain. Learning cursive is good for children’s fine motor skills, and ...

Is cursive handwriting necessary to learn? That¿s under debate as some states work to ensure it is still taught in school.

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 ...

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 ...

Should cursive writing make a comeback in New Jersey schools? Two lawmakers believe all students should learn it. Story by Melanie Burney, The Philadelphia Inquirer • 5d ...