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

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

A recent column on the magnificent and eloquent handwriting of Sig Snyder - and Sig's soulful belief in the expressive importance of cursive - touched off a flood of response. Readers tended to put ...

"It's much more likely that keyboarding will help students succeed in careers and in school than it is that cursive will," said Morgan Polikoff, assistant professor of K-12 policy and leadership at ...

My young grandson is a masterful reader and enjoys books well beyond his grade level. The only time he’s stumped, according to our daughter, is in reading cursive writing. And he is not alone. While I ...

In the fall of 2014, a piece of news caused quite a stir in the education community. One of the societies most renowned for its quality educational environment, Finland, was going to eliminate the ...

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 ...

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 ...

This year is all about the cursive handwriting, specifically, the fine line tattoo. It could be empowering phrases like “Believe in yourself” and “Follow your dreams,” which come from self-help ...