On October 13, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill making cursive handwriting instruction mandatory in 1st through 6th grades. The legislation passed this year, but it could have just ...

Fourth-grade student Mandela Jones practices writing in cursive at Longfellow Elementary School in Pasadena. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) Erica Ingber has something of a dark past when it ...

Tyara Brooks teaches her fourth-grade students how to write in cursive at Longfellow Elementary School in Pasadena. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) “Messy! Messy!” Nearly 40 years later, the ...

Sierra Rivera and her older sister, Dahlia, were thrilled at the idea of baking up a batch of their grandmother’s pumpkin cookies last month for Thanksgiving, but when their dad gave them the ...

CRITICIZE THE U.S. TARIFFS. MANY OF US CAN’T REMEMBER A TIME WHEN CURSIVE WAS NOT TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS, BUT NOW IT’S ALMOST ANCIENT HISTORY, LEAVING AT LEAST ONE GENERATION TO GEN ZERS TO STRUGGLE WITH ...