As school-age children increasingly rely solely on digital devices for remote- and in-class learning, many K-12 school systems around the world are phasing out cursive handwriting and no longer ...

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 ...

Cursive is making a comeback. The looping handwriting style defined by flowing, connected letters had faded from curricula in places such as the United States, Finland and Switzerland as schools ...

As recently as a half-century ago, young American students would spend many lessons writing curved loops and diagonal lines, as they learned how to write in cursive. Over the years, though, computer ...

“BEWARE OF A man whose writing sways like a reed in the wind,” Confucius warned. The ancient philosopher would have been rather suspicious of many literary giants. Leo Tolstoy’s handwriting was messy ...

I remember the first time my second-grade teacher permitted me to use cursive writing on my assignments. At the time, I viewed it as an accomplishment: I could now use cursive for all my assignments!

Reading, writing and arithmetic used to be school standards but then cursive began disappearing from many schools as literacy and math became the main focus. But now, in Pennsylvania, cursive ...

For decades, teachers, parents and wider society recognised the importance of good cursive script. Beautiful handwriting has the ability to stop us in our tracks. We notice it, we admire it and many ...

If you have kids or attend school yourself, you might have noticed that cursive handwriting—that loopy, continuous written style popular in the 20th century and recently cast aside in favor of ...