Concerns over students not knowing how to form signatures has prompted one local group to question whether the state’s ...

But cursive handwriting is making a comeback of sorts for K-8 students in the United States. Several states in recent years passed legislation mandating instruction in cursive handwriting, including ...

In cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a word are joined with connecting strokes, such as in a person's signature. Educators often have trouble finding enough time in the school day to ...

Once a staple of classrooms and correspondence, cursive—a style of handwriting with joined letters and flourishes that put simple print to shame—is on the wane. Or is it? One look at TikTok or ...

A rare sight is making a comeback in Florida’s elementary schools—cursive handwriting. Lawmakers are pushing to require cursive writing instruction and testing for second to fifth-grade ...

Make a new font out of your handwriting for fun or work ... especially if you write in cursive or link certain letters when you’re writing fast (when I write “ing,” for example, I tend ...

As politics editor Rick Rouan explained on the podcast: “Some recent research suggests that cursive handwriting forces kids to just slow down, think about word spelling and sentence structure ...

A Pennsylvania lawmaker has proposed legislation requiring cursive handwriting instruction in public and private elementary schools. Supporters argue cursive writing has cognitive and ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Two lawmakers have introduced bills that would require students to learn cursive handwriting in Missouri schools. Missouri State Reps. Renne Reuter (R-Imperial) and Petty ...

The ability to read cursive handwriting is helpful but not essential. “We create missions where we ask volunteers to help us transcribe or tag records in our catalog,” Isaacs said. To ...

Being able to read the longhand script is a huge help because so many of the documents are written using it. “It’s not just a matter of whether you learned cursive in school, it’s how much ...