Editor's note: To clarify this story published Aug. 21, state board of education officials said Illinois has never required cursive as part of the elementary curriculum. The state, however, has ...

SAN MATEO, Calif. -- 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 ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The pen may not be as mighty as the keyboard these days, but California and a handful of states are not giving up on handwriting entirely. Bucking a growing trend of eliminating ...

Cursive, which you might have heard about from someone who lived in the old days, was also known as “making squiggly things” with your writing implement, ideally a quill, upon some yellow-stained ...

TEACHERS are increasingly tiring of teaching cursive writing as keyboard skills match handwriting in importance, but parents still favour the flowing form of penmanship. Nearly half of teachers don’t ...

To the editor: As a 77-year-old who won my school’s penmanship competition in fourth grade, I’m pretty happy that California kids will be learning cursive handwriting. (“Learning cursive in school, ...

I didn’t yet know what a font was but I do recall that learning how to write in cursive was a big deal, the sort of thing you anxiously anticipated. I can still picture how each letter was posted in ...

TEACHERS are increasingly tiring of teaching cursive writing as keyboard skills match handwriting in importance, but parents still favour the flowing form of penmanship. Nearly half of teachers don’t ...