Teaching cursive is once again the law for kids in California — news that adults greet with celebration, nostalgia, scorn, indifference and head-scratching.

Teaching cursive is once again the law for kids in California — news that adults greet with celebration, nostalgia, scorn, indifference and head-scratching.

In California, a new law will require all students there to learn cursive handwriting — a skill that had been mandatory for generations, but started to fall by the wayside in the digital age.

I had the last laugh. Lousy penmanship didn’t stop me from becoming someone whose profession depends on shaping letters.

LSU Shreveport graduate student Mik Barnes has a problem that many young college students in the United States are experiencing, too: he can't read cursive.

I think cursive is an important skill, but should it be mandatory in today’s technological age? Another factor against it is the extra level of rigor for left-handed students.

I hope that the time once devoted to teaching cursive can now be diverted to teaching students about the content of their writing rather than its physical form.

If a Pennsylvania bill becomes law, schools in Philadelphia will be required to teach cursive to young students.

In 2010, cursive was omitted from the new national Common Core standards for K–12 education. The students in my class, and their peers, were then somewhere in elementary school.

Bright Eyes and Cursive have joined forces to release a mashup of two early-aughts songs from their respective catalogs. “Recluse I Don’t Have to Love” merges “The Recluse” from Cursive ...