Pencil-and-paper asks more of a student than a keyboard. Maybe that’s the point, says expert on language and literacy ...

Learning to read and write cursive was once a rite of passage for practically every American schoolchild. Until the early 20th century, children in the U.S. were generally taught to write in cursive ...

In 2010 the country’s “Common Core” curriculum shunned cursive in favour of keyboard skills, but, since then, more than half ...

Pennsylvania students will soon join a growing number of their peers nationwide practicing the looping, connected script of cursive writing—part of a broader national revival of the once-standard ...

Colleen Endrizzi fondly recalls when she first experienced the “lost language” as a homeschooled kindergartener. She learned it side by side with manuscript writing, a style in which letters are ...

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 ...

My young grandson is a masterful reader and enjoys books well beyond his grade level. The only time he’s stumped, according to our daughter, is in reading cursive writing. And he is not alone. While I ...

“What does a cursive Q look like?” I asked my wife after dinner one recent night. We were helping our 5-year-old daughter form uppercase letters in manuscript when it occurred to me that I did not ...

Learning to read and write cursive was once a rite of passage for practically every American schoolchild. Until the early 20th century, children in the U.S. were generally taught to write in cursive ...

This article was originally published in The Conversation. Learning to read and write cursive was once a rite of passage for practically every American schoolchild. Until the early 20th century, ...