In California, students between first and sixth grade will learn to write in cursive under a new state law. Yes, cursive. But is cursive a skill that students or adults actually need? Try out ...

MARTIN: You write in your piece about some specific ... if something should happen to them. And I - in this beautiful cursive handwriting. And it never occurred to me that my children might ...

Educators and parents are observing a surge in US youths who don’t know how to read or write in cursive — which they blame on handwriting increasingly becoming obsolete in the digital age.

Not the way I do it – but cursive from other hands can be a beautiful expression of personality ... But kids today learn how to text before they can write and may view cursive as a meaningless ...

“Many of our private schools teach cursive writing,” Quirk Silva said. “I want the balance, that all of our students can access historical information.” Around the Bay Area, some districts ...

Cursive was removed from federal Common Core education standards in 2010, so fewer people know how to read or write it. A Tulsa woman wants to change that. She created a curriculum that condenses ...

In 1850, cursive writing was first introduced widely in schools, developed “based on fluid movements observed in nature,” according to the National Museum of American History. The irony is ...