Still, protests against its loss were common, based on various reminders: cursive is an art form — and handwriting is healthier than typing both physically and mentally. Culturally, the ...

Cursive writing is a skill many of us learned growing up, but it's unfortunately not part of the mandatory curriculum in ...

Most American schools no longer teach the handwriting form, instead focusing on keyboard skills. Currently, 24 states require cursive to be taught — but that alone may not help with the National ...

Senate Bill 1044 would require students to be good at both reading and writing in cursive by the end of the 5th grade.

it’s how much you use cursive today,” she said. American’s skill with this connected form of script has been slowly waning for decades. Schoolchildren were once taught impeccable copperplate ...

Good handwriting should not automatically be associated with virtue or academic ability ... or 'character-building.' ...

And some of you might not even know what cursive is or how it’s different from the art form calligraphy. (I have never been able to achieve that skill.) But the one aspect of these bills that I ...

But the cursive students learn now is a more modern style than the script used on the U.S. Constitution and other historical documents. Bookkeeper Platt Rogers Spencer created a fancy form of ...