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 ...

SEATTLE – Just like in third grade, a dozen high-school juniors and seniors slant their papers to the right, with one corner pointed toward their stomachs. They pick up their pens or pencils and ...

A Georgia teacher is doing battle with the College Board that gives the PSAT and SAT exams. Arnita Johnson told Channel 2's Diana Davis that her students were required to write part of the PSAT in ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Melody Eichbauer grew up learning cursive in grade school and scribbling exam answers until her hand cramped well into her college years. Eichbauer, a professor of medieval, legal ...

FLAGLER COUNTY, Fla. — Several states are making cursive writing instruction a requirement in schools once again, citing the importance of students being able to read our nation’s founding and ...

Years after it was omitted from the Common Core standards, some students are practicing cursive in clubs after school and in libraries. Some states are bringing it back to classrooms. Credit ...

If you're going to write a cursive sentence in Mary Beth Taylor's class at Parsley Elementary School, you have to prepare. Pencils rest on the desks in front of her fourth-grade students. Two fingers ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... My third-grade son is an anomaly. He actually enjoys a school subject, which — much to our chagrin — is being scrubbed from elementary schools nationwide.

Have you ever tried to read your physician’s prescriptions? Children increasingly print their writing because they don’t know cursive or theirs is simply unreadable. I have a middle-school grandson ...

COMPTON, Calif.—In a classroom at Anderson Elementary on a recent Thursday, third-graders lined up to have their pencils sharpened to a crisp point before beginning a cursive lesson. The students put ...

Alec Falconer knew for years that he had a problem with words and letters. The young man who is now in 9th grade struggled in school for nearly a decade before his learning difficulty was diagnosed as ...