Missouri legislators are again pushing to make learning to write cursive mandatory for kids in kindergarten through fifth ...

The biggest difference between normal writing and cursive writing is that all letters get typed out differently. Hence, cursive writing can be of wonderful help to the kids who suffer from reading and ...

To understand why cursive writing seems to be a dying art, you have to go all the way back to…well, only 2007, actually. It ...

In the early 20th century, the average American could communicate in several ways. You could go next door and knock on your neighbor’s door. You could send a telegraph to a family or friend who was at ...

I'm thrilled to see cursive handwriting in the news and in the classroom. Even better, the headlines agree with what I ...

Cursive writing lessons were once mandatory in schools. Many adults can remember cursive writing lessons on lined paper and time spent practicing this aesthetically appealing style of writing. But ...

Gustavson said students should learn cursive in order to read old letters and historical documents, and that learning cursive handwriting improves motor skills and hand-eye coordination. Clark County ...

I want to commend Ohio State Representative Cheryl Grossman and other State Representatives on proposing House Bill #146, requiring cursive writing be mandatory in our schools. It is appalling to ...

Geoff Nunberg (@GeoffNunberg) is a linguist who teaches at the School of Information at the University of California at Berkeley. Is longhand doomed? People were predicting that as early as 1938, when ...