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 ...

Judith Thurman has penned a plea to preserve the dying art of cursive in the New Yorker's Page-Turner blog. It's a plea complete with the image of another historical artifact, the Declaration of ...

Mary Lynne Patrick instructed her kindergartners to draw the letter “q” in the air, and 13 small hands made loops and curlicues overhead. School lessons in cursive writing typically begin in second or ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Twenty-three second-graders file into Virginia Edwards’ technology classroom at Grant Ranch School, take a seat at their iMacs, pull on headphones and launch ...

The perennial hot topic of cursive writing has raised its smooth connected head once again, as TechRepublic asks whether technology should replace cursive writing instruction. Cursive writing is ...