Many people of a certain age remember practicing loops and waves, moving our small hands clutching pencils across pages with light blue dotted and solid lines. But in many schools, that elementary ...

Cursive handwriting is making a comeback in Tennessee, with performance benchmarks in the works to guide the teaching of the fading art to students. Proposed cursive standards that would begin in ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Hardly any Greater Cleveland school districts are still teaching cursive writing, but a number of readers believe it should be part of school curriculum. So does State Rep. Cheryl ...

Lawmakers are hoping to reverse course on a recent education trend in which cursive handwriting instruction is abandoned in favor of other instructional topics. Dubbed the "Back to Basics" bill, House ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - A state lawmaker from Beaufort County wants to require South Carolina schools to teach students how to write in cursive. State Rep. Michael Rivers, D-Beaufort, prefiled the ...

The Times asked readers for samples of their cursive and to talk about their relationship with old-fashioned, longhand writing with its loops, curls and dips. A new law will require all California ...

Before students hunker down to take their SATs this spring, many will have an array of tools to help them with the exam. Flash cards, study guides and — cursive handwriting? For many, cursive ...