I was thinking about how difficult it has become to maintain good penmanship in the internet era. When I was in grammar school, just about all our writing was cursive as opposed to block letters, and ...

New research from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) suggests that handwriting practice refines fine-tuned motor skills and creates a perceptual-motor experience that appears to help adults learn ...

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 ...

After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters in ...

In the past 20 years, whether schools should teach cursive writing has been frequently debated: In the mid-2000s and 2010s, cursive writing was largely discontinued in favor of typing skills. However, ...

Once an essential skill, cursive writing is now a challenge for most people. But the jury is divided over its relevance in the digital age. It was a challenge that would have most millennials and Gen ...