I know many young people who are able to text on their phones with impressive speed but are unable to write their own names.

I read with great interest the letter from Sharon, in Middletown, Ohio. I, too, mourn the loss of cursive writing and ...

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

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Cursive writing is a skill many of us learned growing up, but it's unfortunately not part of the mandatory curriculum in Michigan. As a result, many children are missing out on ...

I read with great interest the letter from Sharon, in Middletown, Ohio. I, too, mourn the loss of cursive writing and know ...

Corrections and clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the grade level when students at St. Anne’s-Belfield School are introduced to cursive writing. My mother, now in her 70s, has ...

Is cursive becoming a lost art? The 2010 Common Core standards began omitting cursive instruction, meaning that many members of Gen Z have never been taught how to read or write cursive, The Atlantic ...

A pair of bills filed for the 2026 Legislative Session would mandate students from second to fifth grade to learn how to write and read in cursive.

Twenty-six years ago, two brothers decided their native language needed a new alphabet. The scripts they’d been using to read and write their native Fulani, an African language spoken by at least 40 ...