I type all day. I swipe and tap on my phone. I scribble notes to myself on paper. I’m happy with my mostly-digital life. But every now and then I’ll get a handwritten note—from an old lady, ...

In Holly Martin’s third-grade class at Saint Columbkille in Brighton, the old-fashioned chalkboard has been replaced with an electronic screen. But Martin uses the screen to teach her students a ...

Why are we asking for donations? Why are we asking for donations? This site is free thanks to our community of supporters. Voluntary donations from readers like you keep our news accessible for ...

After a decade-long absence, cursive writing is returning to Georgia classrooms, teaching students practical handwriting skills.

In preparation for Mother’s Day, third-graders at Roosevelt Elementary School recently learned how to write a few of the capital cursive letters that they’ll need for poems for their moms, including ...

"By the time kids get to my fifth-grade class, some of them don't know how to do their signature in cursive," said Quattrucci, a 29-year teaching veteran. "They know how to print their name in block ...

In our increasingly digital age, penmanship is becoming something of a lost art. Between Common Core standards that dictate teaching time and the universal adoption of smart phones, tablets, and ...

An Indiana Department of Education report due this Friday may add fuel to the debate for the return of compulsory cursive writing instruction at Hoosier public and charter elementary schools. Or, it ...

Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools across the country after a generation of students raised on keyboarding, texting and printing out letters longhand. Alabama and Louisiana passed ...

In this Monday, March 19, 2018 photo, Karen Gunter, a third grade teacher at Good Shepherd Episcopal School, left, helps Samantha Moseley, 9, write a letter back to pen pal Sue Standlee, a senior ...

But is cursive like riding a bike or do we forget it instantly like virtually anything we learned in high school math? To find out, we asked 11 adults with varying degrees of cursive experience to ...