Dear Heloise: I sympathize to some extent with the writer in a recent column of yours lamented how doctor’s offices will say ...

The Kansas Department of Education is asking school districts how extensively they're teaching cursive handwriting. Results of a survey will be presented to the state Board of Education at a meeting ...

Is cursive becoming a lost art? The 2010 Common Core standards began omitting cursive instruction, meaning that many members of Gen Z have never been taught how to read or write cursive, The Atlantic ...

Even in a world where computers and online learning have become paramount in education, Pennsylvania lawmakers could be adding an old-fashioned wrinkle to student development: cursive handwriting. "In ...

“I like how my pencil feels on the paper when I write it,” Evi said from her classroom at Mary Queen of Apostles in New Kensington. “It’s very loopy.” Evi and her classmates are learning the art of ...

I type all day. I swipe and tap on my phone. I scribble notes to myself on paper. I’m happy with my mostly-digital life. But every now and then I’ll get a handwritten note—from an old lady, ...

OTHER SERVICES. IT IS ON HARRISBURG PIKE IN LANCASTER. A STATE REPRESENTATIVE IS PROPOSING NEW LEGISLATION THAT WOULD REQUIRE CURSIVE WRITING TO BE TAUGHT IN PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOLS. REPRESENTATIVE JOE ...

Since the late 1800s, when the typewriter struck the first blow to penmanship, handwriting has become an increasingly obsolete skill, and therefore a powerful symbol of the past. It’s an idealized ...

The skill fell out of favor in schools, but states including Iowa are bringing it back and could see benefits, writes Shawn Datchuk.

No matter where you look, it seems like boomers can’t stop griping about the lack of cursive writing; kids today don’t do this, they don’t do that, and most egregiously of all, they don’t loop their ...

I live in West Philadelphia, and my kids, who are 17 and 19, have some beautiful cursive handwriting, a skill they picked up, along with Latin and the ability to sit up straight at a desk for 60 ...