New Jersey and Pennsylvania are among the most recent states to require schools to teach kids old fashioned handwriting skills.

Students in second grade began a lesson on cursive writing without using paper or pencils. They stood up and started to ...

What’s something kids can’t do, but teachers don’t teach? If you answered “cursive,” write a flowing capital letter “A” by hand on your report card. Once a staple of classrooms and correspondence, ...

Approximately 20 volunteers from the university and community squinted at the curled lettering to decipher the cursive for posterity. They were provided with laptops to create typed transcripts of the ...

Frisbee needs Mrs. House's help to sign his name! Watch as she teaches him how to use cursive letters to sign his thank you card. Rise and Shine is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, ...

Gov. Phil Murphy signed legislation mandating cursive instruction in New Jersey schools. Was it really worth it?

Re “What’s the Point of Teaching Cursive?,” by John McWhorter (Opinion, nytimes.com, Dec. 13): The idea that most cursive documents will be “transliterated into print” is fine until you realize that ...

Several states in recent years passed legislation mandating instruction in cursive handwriting.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with historian Drew Gilpin Faust about her story in The Atlantic, "Gen Z Never Learned to Read Cursive." Sponsor Message : [POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: This story incorrectly ...