It may seem like a tie to the past, but 13 Fact Finders looked into Arizona’s cursive resurgence and found it’s about more ...

The writing may be on the wall for something that used to be standard fare in our elementary schools. It turns out that the elegant script of cursive handwriting is barely being taught anymore. The ...

Fourth-grade student Mandela Jones practices writing in cursive at Longfellow Elementary School in Pasadena. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) Erica Ingber has something of a dark past when it ...

I am holding myself accountable for stating — literally in print — I would be reintroducing the Lost Art of Cursive Writing to middle schoolers. After researching a lesson plan, I settled on a goal ...

Forget Marx vs. Mises. You want to get a spirited debate going, ask pretty much anyone over the age of 8: Should kids still be taught cursive writing? I posted this question to Facebook, and for the ...

I know many young people who are able to text on their phones with impressive speed but are unable to write their own names.

"Today more and more I meet high school students who, though they can read, sometimes well and sometimes poorly, are ashamed whenever they are confronted with the need to sign a document." On the back ...

TOGETHER TO SOLVE A UNIQUE PROBLEM IN THE 21ST CENTURY. SPRINGWELL SENIOR LIVING CENTER IS PARTNERING WITH THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES TO HELP TRANSCRIBE DOCUMENTS WRITTEN IN CURSIVE. AND JOINING US NOW IS ...

I read with great interest the letter from Sharon, in Middletown, Ohio. I, too, mourn the loss of cursive writing and ...

Starting in the 1970s, and under the recent implementation of the Common Core, a former pillar of elementary education has been largely forgotten. But there’s a feeling that learning cursive still has ...