After being made optional in 2006, cursive is returning as a mandatory part of the Ontario elementary school curriculum in September.

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.

At Greenbriar East Elementary, the cursive lesson is a hybrid of old and new. Students have pencils in hand, but their ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools across the country after a generation of students who know only keyboarding, texting and printing out their words longhand.

Lawmakers in state after state – particularly in the South – are carving out space in teachers’ classroom time to keep the graceful loops of cursive writing alive for the next generation.

People often credit my good handwriting to my Catholic school education—like a nun with a ruler and a taste for corporal ...

Spencerian cursive was the preferred writing style of clerks in the U.S. government. Here are 12 examples of handwriting so perfect it could be a font.

Last week, elementary school students returned to the classroom in Archdale, N.C., with a new subject on the mandatory agenda: cursive writing. It’s a debate that has been simmering among ...

Most people can't even write in cursive with their hands, but new technology is training those who have lost motor control to write with their eyes.

Re “What’s the Point of Teaching Cursive?,” by John McWhorter (Opinion, nytimes.com, Dec. 13): The idea that most cursive documents will be “transliterated into print” is fine until you ...