Learning to write in cursive may no longer be popular in American schools, but education experts stress that the craft can be beneficial to students in more ways than one.

The following interactive tests your handwriting by challenging you to draw cursive letters on the screen and comparing them to the standard version that was taught in elementary schools for decades.

Students who are unable to read cursive writing miss out from reading historical documents and letters from relatives that have passed on. So, should cursive be taught in school?

In 2010, cursive was omitted from the new national Common Core standards for K–12 education. The students in my class, and their peers, were then somewhere in elementary school.

No more cursive (Nov. 28 letter)? Cursive writing is an art that requires control, thought and an intimacy with written words that is not possible with keyboard clicking.

Cursive can help deter forgery of documents The News recently reported that cursive writing soon may become a casualty of budget cuts. But I expect it is doomed no matter what.

As a senior senior citizen today, I usually communicate via computer which means that the typing class I took in 7th grade at Grover Cleveland Junior High School has paid off. But, I have ...

In his column “Time to embrace cursive again” (Feb. 4, TribLIVE), Tom Purcell writes: “Because ink dripped when the quill was lifted from the paper, it made sense to connect letters in words ...

Pageant winner teaches cursive writing to kids through Waukegan library; ‘I’m doing it now to try to make the world a better place’ ...

Our Wisconsin State Historical Society owns 11,000 letters written by Civil War soldiers. Most are penned in cursive, the alternate mode of communication in earlier times.