Rachel Jeantel, the 19-year-old witness who took the stand in the recent case against George Zimmerman for the death of Trayvon Martin, stunned many when she admitted she couldn't read cursive. But ...

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 ...

“Handwriting was initially the first means of preserving information that was previously only passed down orally,” explains Donica. Before the invention of the printing press, copying information or ...

The Times asked readers for samples of their cursive and to talk about their relationship with old-fashioned, longhand writing with its loops, curls and dips. A new law will require all California ...

Cursive writing is making a comeback. After being made optional in 2006, cursive will return this September as a mandatory part of the Ontario elementary school curriculum. Education Minister Stephen ...

Cursive handwriting is disappearing from the list of required courses at U.S. schools, so one New Jersey grandmother is making sure her grandson's schoolmates know how to loop their Ls and curl their ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools across the country after a generation of students who know only keyboarding, texting and printing out their words longhand.

No matter where you look, it seems like boomers can’t stop griping about the lack of cursive writing; kids today don’t do ...

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. Let's take a moment now for a ...