Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why.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

Gov. Greg Abbott announced Texas is returning to phonics and cursive writing during his June 12, 2026, speech at the Texas ...

Parents wanting their children to pick up the skill of cursive reading and writing over the summer can now do so through ...

(CBS) – Monday is National Handwriting Day, celebrated on the birthday of John Hancock. But nowadays, penmanship – especially cursive – is becoming a lost art. But some children are still using, and ...

Easton Area School District children know their way around an iPad. But writing their names legibly? Not so much. That’s the assessment of Easton Area School Board member Meg Sayago, who said she ...

It's not just the "really pretty" script that draws McKinley Elementary School third-grader Alexia Holcomb to cursive writing. "It makes you strong in your hands," the 9-year-old said as she clutches ...

It’s a familiar refrain. Parents lament that technology is turning good, legible handwriting into a lost art form for their kids. In response, lawmakers in state after state – particularly in the ...

As an autograph collector, I’ve always found it fascinating to compare athlete signatures. The “half moons” that Mickey Mantle incorporated into his moniker later in life are legendary. The sweeping ...

Teaching connected-style handwriting, otherwise known as cursive handwriting, has fallen out of fashion on many school curricula. Older generations have sometimes been shocked that some younger people ...

Students are spending less time learning handwriting. Here’s why it’s still an important skill.

But is cursive like riding a bike or do we forget it instantly like virtually anything we learned in high school math? To find out, we asked 11 adults with varying degrees of cursive experience to ...