COLUMBUS, Ohio — The swirling lines from Linden Bateman’s pen have been conscripted into a national fight to keep cursive writing in American classrooms. Cursive. Penmanship. Handwriting. In years ...

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 ...

Is cursive writing still being taught in America? Some states are starting to bring the old style back after disappearing. Cursive writing is a style of handwriting characterized by connected letters ...

The skill fell out of favor in schools, but states including Iowa are bringing it back and could see benefits, writes Shawn Datchuk.

TUJUNGA, Calif. (KABC) -- In the digital age, cursive handwriting is becoming increasingly irrelevant. It's a battle being waged in school districts across the country, where lessons in computer ...

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 ...

My cursive probably makes teachers cringe, but at least I know how to do it. Thank you, Mrs. McKnight. Third grade is still coming in handy. And, whew, it feels good to be back at the computer ...

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 ...

In our digitized world, where we carry keyboards on the phones in our pockets, handwriting is a dying art. QWERTY is a life skill. Cursive handwriting, increasingly, is an anachronism. Advertisement ...