She can sign her name in cursive, but outside of us making her write thank-you notes and address envelopes, she’s not used it consistently either. And when I ask her to, it’s a chore. “Ugh. Mom.

A Language More Private Than Pig Latin (or: Cursive Is Subversive) Believe it or not, each squiggle represents an entire word. Image via Pinterest. One could certainly argue that it’s 2022 ...

Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why. The ...

While cursive has been relegated to nearly extinct tasks like writing thank-you cards and signing checks, rumors of its death may be exaggerated. The Common Core standards seemed to spell the end ...

Today the ability to read hieroglyphs is a skill taught mainly to historians, archaeologists and genealogists. The same will probably prove true for cursive in the future.

The cursive question has become a national one recently. In the murder trial of George Zimmerman, who shot and killed Florida teen Trayvon Martin, Trayvon's 19-year-old friend, ...

NEW YORK - Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools across the country after a generation of students who know only keyboarding, texting and printing out their words longhand. Alabama ...

About 75 percent of second- and third-grade teachers continue to include cursive instruction in their curriculum despite concerns that the artful writing is on the decline, according to a new ...

Unlike the mostly carved hieroglyphs, cursive scripts were used for day-to-day writing purposes in ancient Egypt. They were written using rush stems and black or red ink on materials such as ...

Lawmakers in state after state – particularly in the South – are carving out space in teachers’ classroom time to keep the graceful loops of cursive writing alive for the next generation.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is on the money, but a Bronx lawmaker thinks his signature is a little off. “Looks like @stevenmnuchin1 needs to learn cursive writing!” a stunned Asse… ...

Starting in the 1970s, and under the recent implementation of the Common Core, a former pillar of elementary education has been largely forgotten. But there’s a feeling that learning cursive ...