LOS ANGELES -- Erica Ingber has something of a dark past when it comes to handwriting: The future elementary school principal got a C-minus in cursive in the fourth grade. But she's ready to follow ...

(The Conversation) – Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card, looked at it and said, “I can’t read cursive yet.” Then he handed it to me to read.

In January researchers and educators from across the country came together to address the role of handwriting in schools. The Idaho Senate followed up by deciding to pass the Cursive Resolution. We ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — If you are over the age of thirty, chances are you were taught cursive writing in school And since 2008 handwriting has not been required learning in South Carolina classrooms.

If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S.

ST. LOUIS — A St. Louis-area fourth grader was chosen as the winner of a national handwriting contest. Evelyn Thompson from Kirk Day School was chosen as the winner of the Nicholas Maxim Award for ...

COLUMBIA - Columbia Public School officials said Friday the district plans to keep teaching the skill of cursive handwriting to elementary students. The statement comes after schools in the St. Louis ...

Concerns over students not knowing how to form signatures has prompted one local group to question whether the state’s cursive requirement is worth the paper it’s written on. Julie Anderson, ...

Our recent story on whether cursive writing should still be taught caused one reader to speculate that in a few years paid specialists will be needed to translate such items as America’s Constitution.