Cursive – the pinnacle of quick and elegant penmanship, or just fancy, antiquated squiggles? However you choose to describe it, students in Louisiana’s public and charter schools will get bigger doses ...

Generations of school kids learned penmanship; whether future generations will learn to write their ABC's by hand at ALL, however, is very much in doubt. Our Cover Story is reported now by Tracy Smith ...

If it were up to the editorial team at Bloomberg, cursive, the loopy, fancy handwriting that no one actually uses anymore, would be taken down to the riverbed, shot, and killed with fire. For some ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. Legislators will be back in the state capital for their annual session on May 16, but ...

Monique McGowan sharpens a No. 2 pencil, straightens her posture and sharply slants her notebook to prepare for her weekly lesson in cursive. She and other third graders at Horrall Elementary School ...

Many schools have eliminated cursive in elementary schools with the rise of computers But several states say cursive is still valuable for students Proponents says cursive helps coordination and motor ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. The aesthetics of American conservatism often seem to prize the old-fashioned or anachronistic.

Much like good hair days and bad hair days, I have good and bad handwriting days. Looking through my notebook for a piece of information the other day, it occurred to me that if a stranger flipped ...

Jack Parisian graduated from Mahnomen (Minn.) High School in 1952 and began receiving letters from the Dakota Business College, Fargo, encouraging him to enroll there. Jack saved the envelope of one ...