Florida students will be required to demonstrate proficiency in cursive writing under a new state law taking effect this week ...

Over recent years, there's been a lot of debate over cursive handwriting - and whether it should still be taught in schools. It's that debate which prompted one viewer to write to us. She wanted to ...

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 and ...

A third-grader practices his cursive handwriting at P.S.166 in the Queens borough of New York. Mary Altaffer AP With the governor’s signature (no doubt in cursive), California Assembly Bill 446 was ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. If pen retailers and state legislators are to be believed, cursive handwriting is ...

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is on the money, but a Bronx lawmaker thinks his signature is a little off. “Looks like @stevenmnuchin1 needs to learn cursive writing!” a stunned Assemblyman Jeff ...

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Turns out the skill your teachers drilled into you never stopped mattering.

Cursive writing was supposed to be dead by now. Schools would stop teaching it. Kids would stop learning it. Everyone would stop using it. The Common Core standards adopted by most states in recent ...