As school-age children increasingly rely solely on digital devices for remote- and in-class learning, many K-12 school systems around the world are phasing out cursive handwriting and no longer ...

“I like how my pencil feels on the paper when I write it,” Evi said from her classroom at Mary Queen of Apostles in New Kensington. “It’s very loopy.” Evi and her classmates are learning the art of ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — January 23 is National Handwriting Day. The day was created in 1977 to promote the use of pens, pencils and paper. But in 2020, is learning how to write in cursive still important?

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 ...

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 ...

Justice B. Hill argues that despite technological advances, handwriting develops critical thinking skills that typing and ...

Twenty-four U.S. states require schools to teach cursive, according to a November 2024 report from Education Week, which credited a 10-state uptick over the past decade as state lawmakers and ...

My handwriting is a drunken tumble of letters, so illegible to others that it strains the definition of literacy. If I wrote this story longhand, using cursive, you might not be able to read it. There ...

Bengaluru schools see declining cursive handwriting skills as children increasingly rely on digital devices, raising concerns about learning, hand-eye coordination, and writing fundamentals.