Across the country, many school districts dropped cursive from their curricula years ago. The new Common Core State Standards now being implemented in most states never mention the word "cursive." ...

The loops and curls of cursive handwriting have all but vanished from college essay exam blue books. On rare occasions when college students write by hand, nearly all of them use what educators call ...

Script is finding new life in after-school clubs where students can learn to loop and swoosh their handwriting.

Kate Gladstone is the founder of Handwriting Repair/Handwriting That Works and the director of the World Handwriting Contest. April 30, 2013 Handwriting matters, but not cursive. The fastest, clearest ...

Yes, even cursive - I can indeed do calligraphy (and yet I print most of the time), but I bet I suck at some normal life skill other people here learned well. Not all "natural" progressions should be ...

Some cursive supporters also invoke science, arguing that learning cursive helps young brains grow more than learning basic printing does. Professor Amy Bastian, a motor neuroscientist at the Kennedy ...