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

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.

Cursive “enhances a child’s brain development, including memorization, and improves fine motor skills,” she wrote. Advertisement. So does playing chess, but I don’t see Newsom appointing ...

SHREVEPORT, La. – 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’m a history ...

I eventually learned to write cursive with a straight left hand, not the curved cramped claw that some lefties develop. Based on my ability to write in cursive, I may be older than some of you.

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.

Cursive may be easier to write than print — for many, at least — but it’s harder to read. And besides, because so many cursive letters differ significantly from their printed equivalents, ...

I live in West Philadelphia, and my kids, who are 17 and 19, have some beautiful cursive handwriting, a skill they picked up, along with Latin and the ability to sit up straight at a desk for 60 ...