Cursive writing is still taught in some schools within the U.S., although, it's not nationally mandated or emphasized. In ...

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.

Read: Don’t write off cursive Yet the decline in cursive seems inevitable. Writing is, after all, a technology, and most technologies are sooner or later surpassed and replaced.

I certainly hope not because I’ve written about how important that is to children’s well-being. I think cursive is an important skill, but should it be mandatory in today’s technological age?

I certainly hope not because I’ve written about how important that is to children’s well-being. I think cursive is an important skill, but should it be mandatory in today’s technological age?

I hope that the time once devoted to teaching cursive can now be diverted to teaching students about the content of their writing rather than its physical form.

A fourth grader at a Los Angeles charter school practices cursive in 1998. Cursive writing in Europe evolved when medieval scribes observed a form of Arabic writing in which the letters flowed ...

Do you remember the last time you wrote in cursive? Do you still know how to read it? If so, the National Archives is looking for your help ...

Long before Chromebooks took center stage in schools, there was cursive handwriting. But for many children growing up today, cursive can be akin to hieroglyphics, as the Modesto Bee reported. Common ...

Starting this year, California grade school students are required to learn cursive handwriting, after the skill had fallen out of fashion in the computer age.