Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why. The flowing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This article was originally published in Stateline. In 2016, California Democratic state Assemblymember Sharon Quirk-Silva sat ...

FULLERTON, Calif. • A generation of children who learned to write on screens is now going old school. Starting this year, California grade school students are required to learn cursive handwriting, ...

Years after it was omitted from the Common Core standards, some students are practicing cursive in clubs after school and in libraries. Some states are bringing it back to classrooms. Credit ...

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 ...

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 ...

What do the U.S. Constitution, birthday cards and your signature have in common? They’re (likely) all in cursive. However, becoming fluent in this form of penmanship, once the hallmark of a good ...

It’s fun Friday in Jill Davis’ third-grade classroom in Mechanicsburg. Students start their day playing a game that puts their cursive writing skills to the test. Called “here comes the judge,” the ...

Twelve-year-old Sandi Chandee wants to be a doctor when she grows up. But that's not why she memorized one of the longest medical terms in the English language ...

SUGARLOAF TWP. — Students in second grade began a lesson on cursive writing without using paper or pencils. They stood up and started to recite: “down curve, under curve, over curve” while moving ...