For many young people, “handwriting,” once essentially synonymous with cursive, has come to mean the painstaking printing they turn to when necessity dictates.

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

Cursive instruction waned after Common Core Standards were adopted by most states in 2010, but in recent years, cursive ...

More than a decade after it was phased out in most schools, elementary school students in California will begin learning cursive writing next year — thanks to a new law.

Cursive could be making a comeback in the Keystone State. The Pennsylvania House of Representatives passed a penmanship bill ...

Anne Trubek, an author who founded Cleveland-based Belt Publishing, wrote in her 2016 book, “The History an Uncertain Future of Handwriting,” that cursive will inevitably be phased out.

Here’s what to know about a new California law about cursive being taught in elementary schools.

The National Archives is brimming with historical documents written in cursive, including some that date back more than 200 years. But these texts can be difficult to read and understand ...

Demedres L. Grant, a passionate advocate for the art of handwriting, is pleased to announce the release of her new book, ...

The efficient writing style once thrived in U.S. businesses and schools, but researchers fret that today’s lack of cursive literacy may have a surprising impact on history—and ourselves.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law last Friday that requires the teaching of cursive writing in schools for grades one through six.

Today’s adults who mastered cursive back when it was a requirement in school don’t really use it anymore, and they haven’t for a long time. In 2012, one survey of handwriting teachers found ...