STORY: Cursive is making a comeback in California. In an era of computers and tablets, the skill has fallen out of fashion. But a new state law requires students to learn the old-school style of ...

(CBS) – Monday is National Handwriting Day, celebrated on the birthday of John Hancock. But nowadays, penmanship – especially cursive – is becoming a lost art. But some children are still using, and ...

“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 ...

(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.

With most writing happening on mobiles and laptops, writing in cursive style is out of vogue. It is not compulsory in schools as reading materials of students is only in print form. Soon, even ...

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 ...

Unlike probably most people, I enjoy the act of writing by hand — but I’ve always disliked signing my name. Why is that? I think it’s because signatures are supposed to be in cursive, or else they don ...

Twenty-four U.S. states require schools to teach cursive, according to a November 2024 report from Education Week, which credited a 10-state uptick over the past decade as state lawmakers and ...

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 ...