It was with great interest that I read “Write-off - Cursive handwriting no longer stressed at Eastern Iowa schools (April 26).” How sad. How many of us remember parents or grandparents who had ...

He notes, "For several years, we conducted the National Handwriting Contest, and it focused on cursive handwriting specifically. But we had thousands of teachers that would send in handwriting ...

Currently, 21 states require some sort of cursive handwriting instruction, according to mycursive.com, a website that tracks cursive writing requirements nationwide.

Primary Message Grant's book, Cursive Learning Adventure: A Fun Guide To Beautiful Handwriting, encourages individuals, especially young readers, to revive the art of cursive writing.

Practice writing each letter over and over until you can make the same shape consistently. Lined paper helps you to keep the parts of the letter in proportion to each other.

Lawmakers in state after state – particularly in the South – are carving out space in teachers’ classroom time to keep the graceful loops of cursive writing alive for the next generation.

The writing may be on the wall for cursive handwriting. With a growing number of schools opting not to teach cursive, it may be on its way to becoming a disappearing art. So one New Jersey ...

Most people can't even write in cursive with their hands, but new technology is training those who have lost motor control to write with their eyes.

At the Denver Montclair International School, some students learn to write in cursive as early as kindergarten — in accordance with standard French and Spanish curricula.

The efficient writing style once thrived in U.S. businesses and schools, but researchers fret that today’s lack of cursive literacy may have a surprising impact on history—and ourselves.

STORY: Cursive is making a comeback in California. In an era of computers and tablets, the skill has fallen out of fashion.But a new state law requires students to learn the old-school style of ...

Others say cursive helps students write faster than print, and that they need it to develop a signature. Technology Took Priority So why didn’t the common-core writers include cursive?