A recent column on the magnificent and eloquent handwriting of Sig Snyder - and Sig's soulful belief in the expressive importance of cursive - touched off a flood of response. Readers tended to put ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The swirling lines from Linden Bateman’s pen have been conscripted into a national fight to keep cursive writing in American classrooms. Cursive. Penmanship. Handwriting. In years ...

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 ...

As many as 4%2C000 Arizona kids are expected to enter the Zaner-Bloser National Handwriting Contest this month. The Arizona College and Career Ready Standards do not require that students learn ...

If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority from ...

Cursive handwriting is disappearing from the list of required courses at U.S. schools, so one New Jersey grandmother is making sure her grandson's schoolmates know how to loop their Ls and curl their ...

The use of pencils, pens, paper workbooks and textbooks — along with the teaching of cursive handwriting and a stipulation ...

In the fall of 2014, a piece of news caused quite a stir in the education community. One of the societies most renowned for its quality educational environment, Finland, was going to eliminate the ...

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

A video posted by the social media account @ThaibyChom, which teaches Thai to foreigners, has gone viral, sparking heated ...

Unlike probably most people, I enjoy the act of writing by hand — but I’ve always disliked signing my name. Why is that? I think it’s because signatures are supposed to be in cursive, or else they don ...

As the new school year begins, all those little hands in elementary school are once again at the center of a fierce debate: Is cursive writing a skill that’s still worth teaching, or an out-of-date ...