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.

After being made optional in 2006, cursive is returning as a mandatory part of the Ontario elementary school curriculum in September.

Learning to write in cursive may no longer be popular in American schools, but education experts stress that the craft can be beneficial to students in more ways than one.

Cursive writing (and, thus, reading cursive) is not formally taught any longer and was dropped from the Common Core curriculum standards in 2013. What are the current and future implications of ...

Some people believe children still should learn how to write in cursive while others believe it's time to erase the form of handwriting from curriculums.

The efficient writing style once thrived in U.S. businesses and schools, but researchers fret that today’s lack of cursive literacy may have a surprising impact on history—and ourselves.

Lousy penmanship didn’t stop me from becoming someone whose profession depends on shaping letters. Being incompetent in cursive didn’t hold me back one bit.

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.

One month after the New York Times hosted the “Is Cursive Dead?” debate, North Carolina declared that cursive is very much alive. House Bill 146, nicknamed the “Back to Basics” bill, was ...

Learning cursive is good for children’s fine motor skills, and writing in longhand generally helps students retain more information and generate more ideas.

Also, because computers. The biggest controversy to take place in the world of penmanship is happening right now: The Common Core education standards dictate that cursive will no longer be taught ...