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.

National Handwriting Day was this month. While it may seem like a silly holiday, it’s getting serious traction, even among lawmakers. While many classrooms are filled with computers, smart phones and ...

Over a half century ago, in school, we began learning cursive handwriting. Above the blackboard on a cork background was stapled the letters of the alphabet in capital and lower case in cursive ...

A proposed bill in Florida seeks to reintroduce cursive writing instruction for students in grades 2 through 5.

The pencil salesman’s lament will likely sound familiar: “Penmanship,” he complained, “is sort of dying out.” In today’s texting, typing world, worry about the “dying art” of handwriting is a common ...

STORY: Cursive is making a comeback in California. In an era of computers and tablets, the skill has fallen out of fashion. But a new state law requires students to learn the old-school style of ...

This article is presented in partnership with CA Lottery. In an age when students can easily type 60 words per minute on their touchscreen devices, you would think that the art of handwriting would be ...

If you are talented at reading cursive handwriting, the National Archives could really use your help with transcribing and organizing many of its handwritten records. The aim of the project is to make ...