To the editor: For years, cursive writing has not been taught in public schools (“Have we forgotten how to say thank you?” March 19). Three of my four grandchildren cannot read a letter that I write ...

The Times asked readers for samples of their cursive and to talk about their relationship with old-fashioned, longhand writing with its loops, curls and dips. A new law will require all California ...

Frisbee needs Mrs. House's help to sign his name! Watch as she teaches him how to use cursive letters to sign his thank you card. Rise and Shine is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, ...

It’s quaint to read how common it was in the late 1920s, when sound had just come to the movies, to assume it was just a fad. More than a few people thought films had been better without sound — that ...

But is cursive like riding a bike or do we forget it instantly like virtually anything we learned in high school math? To find out, we asked 11 adults with varying degrees of cursive experience to ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — 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 ...

A variety of educators and politicians across the country are pushing back against the death of cursive, resurrecting the rite of passage. Here's why. Ask anyone who completed third grade in the 1980s ...

On a recent Tuesday night, I attended the parents’ open house at my daughters’ school, a Taft-era brick building in New Haven, Connecticut, which serves four hundred and fifty children, in grades ...

Priceless letters, papers and manuscripts under Hotchkiss' care are handwritten — letters by Mark Twain, manuscripts by H.G. Wells, the papers of Gwendolyn Brooks, all cursive — and all Greek to some ...

The national education standards, Common Core, aimed to kill the teaching of cursive. But it is not dead—just wounded. Yesterday, I did a radio interview on WHO in DesMoines, which bills itself as the ...