Interactive white boards have replaced chalkboards. Kids take some tests on computers. However, posters bearing the cursive alphabet still hang on the walls of third-grade classrooms in Roanoke.

NEW YORK - 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. Alabama and ...

In 3rd grade, many children learn how to connect the letters of the alphabet into loopy, flowing words. Called cursive, the writing style has been a staple in American classrooms since the pioneer ...

Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why. The flowing ...

A recent study by scientists at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology concluded something I suspected to be true: cursive writing promotes learning more than typing on a keyboard. They ...

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An out-of-state reader-friend recently reported being flabbergasted by a high school graduation invitation addressed in block lettering. My friend wondered if etiquette had disappeared from our ...

Since the U.S. Department of Education dropped cursive writing from standard national curricula in 2011, the debate on the value of learning penmanship has raged. Some argue that the skill is obsolete ...