Fourth-grade student Mandela Jones practices writing in cursive at Longfellow Elementary School in Pasadena. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) Erica Ingber has something of a dark past when it ...

As the world rapidly moves away from the need to write information by hand, there are still many U.S. states still teaching cursive instruction to American children. California and New Hampshire ...

To the editor: As a 77-year-old who won my school’s penmanship competition in fourth grade, I’m pretty happy that California kids will be learning cursive handwriting. (“Learning cursive in school, ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- If cursive writing is a lost art, Debbie Younger may be the modern-day “Indiana Jones" of penmanship. The Fountain grandmother is on a new crusade to bring back ...

Over the next few weeks, the Marshfield Mariner will be featuring editorial pieces written by AP English students and submitted as part of a class requirement. As always, we welcome submissions and ...

California has enacted a law requiring schools to teach cursive writing. For years, learning cursive was considered an outdated and unnecessary skill, but the heavy reliance on technology has led to a ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (LEX 18) — Should Kentucky's kids learn how to write in cursive? Lawmakers are considering a bill that would require it. Senate Bill 167 would require cursive writing to be taught “as a ...

Technology may have become a staple at home and in school, and Grand Forks educators maybe mulling an even earlier start to keyboarding classes, but traditional cursive continues to survive in some ...

A new bill in the Florida House of Representatives (HB 127) proposes teaching cursive to students in grades 2–5.

Because you are reading this in typeface (or maybe even listening to this in an audio format), cursive probably isn’t even on your radar. Who writes in cursive anymore? Maybe to sign checks or ...

LOS ANGELES – Erica Ingber has something of a dark past when it comes to handwriting: The future elementary school principal got a C-minus in cursive in the fourth grade. But she’s ready to follow the ...