Teaching connected-style handwriting, otherwise known as cursive handwriting, has fallen out of fashion on many school curricula. Older generations have sometimes been shocked that some younger people ...

A student at an elementary school practices writing cursive as California grade school students are being required to learn cursive handwriting this year. (Reuters) A generation of children who ...

Cursive loyalists lament the loss of cursive teaching in schools. WSJ's Andy Jordan reports from San Francisco. RALEIGH, N.C.—Across North Carolina and in dozens of other states, teachers are ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. If pen retailers and state legislators are to be believed, cursive handwriting is ...

A group of students from five classrooms at an elementary school in Nelson, B.C., just competed in a North American ...

Schools in Finland, it has been reported, are phasing out the teaching of handwriting skills, a claim that has led to arguments along the lines of whether technology has made handwriting obsolete and ...

Turns out the skill your teachers drilled into you never stopped mattering.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents ...

Cursive is an art. It’s woven into the very fabric of the United States constitution. Yet, everywhere we look, it’s literally being written out of existence. Like a sandcastle built at the edge of the ...

Starting July 1, a new educational law in Florida will require public school students to learn and demonstrate proficiency in ...

Florida's new cursive requirement makes handwriting mandatory for grades 3-5, with proficiency required before middle school.