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 ...

One survey of handwriting teachers found that just 37% wrote in cursive. And that was a dozen years ago. Bigstock Goodness, I hate writing cursive. Some people love it. They enjoy and admire the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the past 20 years, whether schools should teach cursive writing has been frequently debated: In the mid-2000s and 2010s, ...

Because you are reading this in typeface (or maybe even listening to this in an audio format), cursive probably isn’t even on your radar. Who writes in cursive anymore? Maybe to sign checks or ...

She said I have pristine penmanship,” Sybil Van Antwerp wrote to one of her correspondents in Virginia Evans’ bestselling ...

Well, it’s finally over. My stint as a seventh grade English Language Arts co-teacher has come to an end, but not without a Finale. For weeks the students have been learning, and complaining, about ...

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 ...

Parents wanting their children to pick up the skill of cursive reading and writing over the summer can now do so through ...

Concerns over students not knowing how to form signatures has prompted one local group to question whether the state’s cursive requirement is worth the paper it’s written on. Julie Anderson, ...

New bills in Florida would mandate cursive instruction for students in second through fifth grade. Proponents argue cursive is important for reading historical documents and developing a personal ...