Tyara Brooks teaches her fourth-grade students how to write in cursive at Longfellow Elementary School in Pasadena. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) “Messy! Messy!” Nearly 40 years later ...

Writing in cursive remains a large part of our culture, Superintendent Graham said. “We need to be careful about losing that, because so much of the basics is driven by technology,” she said.

Most people can't even write in cursive with their hands, but new technology is training those who have lost motor control to write with their eyes.

Cursive writing is a skill many of us learned growing up, but it's unfortunately not part of the mandatory curriculum in Michigan. As a result, many children are missing out on this valuable skill.

At Greenbriar East Elementary, the cursive lesson is a hybrid of old and new. Students have pencils in hand, but their ...

Ferry gave other assistance. Maritza Escamilla, who teaches cursive writing at the Waukegan Public Library, was crowned National Outstanding American Junior Miss in August. – Original Credit ...

And three more said they don’t teach cursive writing at all; however, D-70 in Pueblo said they’re discussing bringing it back. Before 2009, most kids were taught cursive writing in the third ...

The attention cursive writing gets is in decline. From what I can see as an educator, the expectation to write in cursive beyond elementary school is essentially absent in some schools.

As a result, he says, there are no longer written requirements about whether to include cursive in curriculums, so many schools have severely shortened lessons, or worse, "the teacher just says: I ...

A 77-year-old who won an award for penmanship offers a compromise: Old folks teach kids how to write in cursive, and kids teach old folks how to use smartphones.