What do the U.S. Constitution, birthday cards and your signature have in common? They’re (likely) all in cursive. However, ...

Can a cursive handwriting pilot program for elementary students enhance writing fluency while increasing academic confidence.

Tyara Brooks teaches her fourth-grade students how to write in cursive at Longfellow Elementary School in Pasadena. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) “Messy! Messy!” Nearly 40 years later, the ...

Mrs. Davis, my fourth-grade teacher, taught me cursive 63 years ago. I remember her more than most of my teachers, I think, because of cursive. Cursive was hard, and boringly ...

Well, it’s finally over. My stint as a seventh grade English Language Arts co-teacher has come to an end, but not without a Finale. For weeks the students have been learning, and complaining, about ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- If cursive writing is a lost art, Debbie Younger may be the modern-day “Indiana Jones" of penmanship. The Fountain grandmother is on a new crusade to bring back ...

Dear Heloise: I house-sit and clean for a number of clients, and I wanted to share some observations. The use of granite ...

Cursive is an art. It’s woven into the very fabric of the United States constitution. Yet, everywhere we look, it’s literally being written out of existence. Like a sandcastle built at the edge of the ...

Since the late 1800s, when the typewriter struck the first blow to penmanship, handwriting has become an increasingly obsolete skill, and therefore a powerful symbol of the past. It’s an idealized ...

Denver Stanley British Primary students Liam Cassidy, Gavin Barringer and his older sister Ashlyne. This is the digital age and I’m looking at something many have thought was increasingly near ...

More and more states are dropping handwriting from their core curricula. Jan. 24, 2011 -- The handwriting may be on the wall for cursive. At least that's what some people fear as schools across the ...