Cursive writing is still taught in some schools within the U.S., although, it's not nationally mandated or emphasized. In ...

Utilizing fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, and boosting memory and brain development, cursive just might be the magic key to help all students form letters, words, and sentences.

Cursive instruction sidelined In cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a word are joined with connecting strokes, such as in a person’s signature.

And besides, because so many cursive letters differ significantly from their printed equivalents, they entail a learning burden that would be better spent on other, more useful tasks.

The American Philosophical Society in Old City is using AI to transcribe thousands of Revolutionary-era documents.

By adding ‘monkey tails’ to each print letter, children grew accustomed to the idea that letters could easily be connected together — and start to believe that cursive is much faster than print.

A 77-year-old who won an award for penmanship offers a compromise: Old folks teach kids how to write in cursive, and kids teach old folks how to use smartphones.

Learning to write in cursive may no longer be popular in American schools, but education experts stress that the craft can be beneficial to students in more ways than one.

Cursive letters look a little bit different than those stick letters that we learned in elementary school. Well, I'm going to be sure and not say that word again.

A-hed Cursive Is Coming Back, Now That Kids Can’t Read Grandma’s Letters More than a decade after many wrote off the handwriting style, states are bringing it back ...

In 2010, cursive was omitted from the new national Common Core standards for K–12 education. The students in my class, and their peers, were then somewhere in elementary school.