Cursive handwriting plays a part in developing them. Yoder said it helps stimulate the brain in a variety of ways that can have long-lasting implications in a way that typing does not.

RALEIGH, N.C.—Across North Carolina and in dozens of other states, teachers are committing what once would have been heresy: They are writing off cursive script. At a growing number of schools ...

People often credit my good handwriting to my Catholic school education—like a nun with a ruler and a taste for corporal ...

STORY: Cursive is making a comeback in California. In an era of computers and tablets, the skill has fallen out of fashion.But a new state law requires students to learn the old-school style of ...

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 a generation of kids learning how to correctly type on a keyboard, many schools are reviving the skill of writing in script.

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.

The Iowa Reading Research Center has released a free cursive instruction online tool to help teachers and parents offer a ...

Adults increasingly abandon cursive. In 2012, handwriting teachers were surveyed at a conference hosted by Zaner-Bloser, a publisher of cursive textbooks.

Cursive handwriting, that classroom staple for so many years of students, may be on the way out now that the Common Core standards, adopted by 45 states, have dropped it from the curriculum in ...

Cursive advocates cite recent brain science that indicates the fluid motion employed when writing script enhances hand-eye coordination and develops fine motor skills, in turn promoting reading ...

Unlike probably most people, I enjoy the act of writing by hand — but I’ve always disliked signing my name. Why is that? I think it’s because signatures are supposed to be in curs… ...