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.

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.

Starting this school year, all Georgia students in grades 3-5 are expected to learn cursive, with the goal of reading and writing it by end of fifth grade. The state says cursive strengthens literacy, ...

Many students never fall into the habit of writing in cursive, probably because they see no reason to develop the habit. They might well expect that soon nothing will be written with pen or pencil ...

To certain younger Americans, cursive writing is nothing more than an inscrutable collection of loops and squiggles. A growing number of states are trying to change that.

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 ...

Cursive Only Grandma's Writing? By Tatiana Morales January 15, 2004 / 1:50 PM EST / CBS Yes, time to read the writing on the wall -- that is, if you can make it out.

Cursive writing is a style of handwriting wherein letters of a word are interconnected by lead-in and lead-out lines. It is written, as in Italics, at a slant angle from the baseline.

The Times asked readers for samples of their cursive and to talk about their relationship with old-fashioned, longhand writing with its loops, curls and dips. A new law will require all California ...

Missouri legislators push for mandatory cursive writing instruction in public schools. From Yvette Walker: ...