A single sentence, uttered in the trial of George Zimmerman for the shooting of teenager Trayvon Martin, has catapulted an issue into the national spotlight. When asked if she could read a letter in ...

Cursive is an art. It’s woven into the very fabric of the United States constitution. Yet, everywhere we look, it’s literally being written out of existence. Like a sandcastle built at the edge of the ...

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 and ...

Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why.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

Halle O'Brien writes during after-school cursive club, held by teacher Sherisse Kenerson, at Holmes Middle School in Alexandria, Va. (Anna Rose Layden for NPR) Twelve-year-old Sandi Chandee wants to ...

Many people of a certain age remember practicing loops and waves, moving our small hands clutching pencils across pages with light blue dotted and solid lines. But in many schools, that elementary ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Traditional handwriting is making a comeback in California schools. On Friday Governor Newsom signed a bill that will require cursive instruction in first through sixth grade.

Since the late 1800s, when the typewriter struck the first blow to penmanship, handwriting has become an increasingly obsolete skill, and therefore a powerful symbol of the past. It’s an idealized ...

Not having been blessed with grandchildren, the news came to me a little late. I couldn’t believe it. “Yes,” said the mother of my great nephew, “it’s true. Schools will no longer teach cursive ...

Calligraphy enthusiasts, rejoice: Cursive is officially making a comeback. Arizona is to become the first state with foundational writing standards, making cursive a curriculum-sanctioned area of ...

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