A Virginia after-school cursive club went viral. More than two dozen states require cursive in their curriculums. Is it an ...

I'm thrilled to see cursive handwriting in the news and in the classroom. Even better, the headlines agree with what I ...

Many people of a certain age remember practicing loops and waves, moving our small hands clutching pencils across pages with light blue dotted and solid lines. But in many schools, that elementary ...

Bring back the practice worksheets of yore, perfect that slant, and — please — loop those lowercase Ls and Gs. Just as phonics-based reading recently returned to favor after years of emphasizing whole ...

To understand why cursive writing seems to be a dying art, you have to go all the way back to…well, only 2007, actually. It ...

Most of us have heard the phrase: “You write like a doctor.” That means an individual’s penmanship is so sloppy that it’s difficult to read. Doctors have a reputation for poor penmanship but not to ...

A couple in Indiana developed a free writing academy to help young people learn how to write and read cursive handwriting.Twice a week, Terrell and Chelsea Wittington teach young students how to write ...

Lawmakers in Missouri have introduced a bill that could restore previous curriculum standards across the state, including ...

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I get it — you hate writing by hand. But have you ever considered why that is? Is it because typing is easier, faster, and more convenient here in 2023? Maybe so. All of those notwithstanding, I ...