As a parent, you are most likely thinking about all the things your child will need to be successful in school. You want to give the child everything possible to make learning easier and meaningful.

Call me a fan of recess and cursive writing, although my enthusiasm isn't grounded in experience gleaned as a parent-advocate for those subjects. Well, let me walk that back a bit. A group of us did ...

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 ...

My mother had the most beautiful handwriting. She regularly employed the cursive style of penmanship. In case you don’t know, cursive is a style of writing that has joined letters written with the ...

Teaching cursive in public schools waned after the Common Core standards, which most states adopted, didn’t include cursive in the recommended curriculum. Critics of cursive requirements say time in ...

Whatever happens to a bill requiring Louisiana schoolchildren to recite part of the Declaration of Independence every day, they soon will be able to read it in manuscript. Right now, many of them ...

No matter where you look, it seems like boomers can’t stop griping about the lack of cursive writing; kids today don’t do this, they don’t do that, and most egregiously of all, they don’t loop their ...

“I like how my pencil feels on the paper when I write it,” Evi said from her classroom at Mary Queen of Apostles in New Kensington. “It’s very loopy.” Evi and her classmates are learning the art of ...

Is cursive becoming a lost art? The 2010 Common Core standards began omitting cursive instruction, meaning that many members of Gen Z have never been taught how to read or write cursive, The Atlantic ...

As school-age children increasingly rely solely on digital devices for remote- and in-class learning, many K-12 school systems around the world are phasing out cursive handwriting and no longer ...