No more cursive (Nov. 28 letter)? Cursive writing is an art that requires control, thought and an intimacy with written words that is not possible with keyboard clicking. Carefully written cursive has ...

An Indiana Department of Education report due this Friday may add fuel to the debate for the return of compulsory cursive writing instruction at Hoosier public and charter elementary schools. Or, it ...

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 installment, we look at the power of the written word. Common Core ...

Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why. The flowing ...

For openers, it is the first and best form of personalized communication. It gives personality to your letter. It is a form of expression. You may not always have the ability to “text,” or have a ...

STAUNTON — A few weeks ago one of the reporters at The News Leader received an envelope from someone with a story idea. She opened it and realized it was a handwritten letter in cursive. Her first ...

I don’t remember learning to write. I’ve just always known how. The curved C’s, the spiked T’s, the loops of lowercase L’s flowed from my fingers at an age so young that memory doesn’t bookmark the ...

Shawn Datchuk is an associate professor of special education at the University of Iowa. This essay from The Conversation is republished under a Creative Commons license. Recently, my 8-year-old son ...

But is cursive like riding a bike or do we forget it instantly like virtually anything we learned in high school math? To find out, we asked 11 adults with varying degrees of cursive experience to ...

With the introduction of the Common Core Education Standards, elementary age students are no longer required to learn cursive handwriting. In response, California is among the states leading the ...