Teaching cursive is once again the law for kids in California — news that adults greet with celebration, nostalgia, scorn, indifference and head-scratching.

Starting this school year, all Georgia students in grades 3-5 are expected to learn cursive, with the goal of reading and writing it by end of fifth grade. The state says cursive strengthens literacy, ...

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.

In California, a new law will require all students there to learn cursive handwriting — a skill that had been mandatory for generations, but started to fall by the wayside in the digital age.

Cursive used to be a mainstay of academics until, relatively recently, it was dropped from many public schools’ curriculums in favor of technology that favors printed writing.

Writing in cursive has become a lost art form. It’s a shame because there are many positives that come with the beautiful flow of a pen on the move.

A handwriting scholar doesn’t think cursive is an essential modern skill Today, debates in favor of cursive take the form of “tradition strangely grafted onto patriotism,” she said, nothing ...

As school-age children increasingly rely solely on digital devices for remote- and in-class learning, many K-12 school systems around the world are phasing out cursive handwriting and no longer ...

People often credit my good handwriting to my Catholic school education—like a nun with a ruler and a taste for corporal ...

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 ...

Both Griffin and Rosalky also respect the argument that cursive is a long-forgotten, elegant form of writing that is appreciated more by older generations.

As school-age children increasingly rely solely on digital devices for remote- and in-class learning, many K-12 school systems around the world are phasing out cursive handwriting and no longer ...