It was with great interest that I read “Write-off - Cursive handwriting no longer stressed at Eastern Iowa schools (April 26).” How sad. How many of us remember parents or grandparents who had ...

What do the U.S. Constitution, birthday cards and your signature have in common? They’re (likely) all in cursive. However, ...

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 ...

Have you written a letter or signed your name and then stopped, self-conscious about the state of your cursive? Can anyone really read this? Should I start over? Maybe I should just scribble something ...

Across the country, schools are no longer teaching cursive writing. We asked members of the Times-Union Email Interactive Group whether this is a wise move. Here is a representative sampling of the ...

The Illinois House of Representatives approved a bill to require cursive writing to be taught in elementary schools and high schools by a bipartisan 67-48 vote. The bill was sent to the Senate for ...

Public school students would have to be taught cursive writing starting in August under a bill that breezed through the Louisiana Senate Education Committee on Thursday. The measure, Senate Bill 275, ...

Cursive writing is defined as a style of penmanship where some characters are written and joined together in a flowing manner. It is generally used to allow an individual to write faster. I distinctly ...