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.

Dear Answer Man, It’s my understanding that teaching cursive writing in schools is a thing of the past.

These days, little classroom time is spent teaching cursive writing, crowded out of the curriculum by the demands of an increasingly complex world ...

In this digital age, who needs to know how to read and write cursive? The State of Georgia says all third through fifth graders will learn again how to do just that. Channel 2’s Lori Wilson went out ...

RALEIGH, N.C. — In the age of texting and tweeting, North Carolina’s elementary-school students soon could have to master a more old-fashioned craft: writing in cursive.

Learning cursive has “beneficial effects on the brain,” Sheila Lowe, the Ventura-based president of the American Handwriting Analysis Foundation, said in January in a letter to the editor of ...

Cursive writing still is being taught in schools, but it won't be required in Indiana schools starting in the fall. Third-grader Hanna-Elyzabeth Bejar gets help with the letter G from teacher ...

A bill introduced in the N.C. House to require students to learn cursive writing and multiplication tables by the end of elementary school is expected to be signed by Gov. Pat McCrory next week.

A Northwest Arkansas legislator’s bill has made cursive writing a hot topic of this year’s legislative session.

And nearly two dozen states have made efforts to reintroduce cursive in schools, including Alabama, Louisiana and North Carolina, which all passed laws requiring the writing style.

He recently beat out nearly 250,000 kids his age to win the Zaner-Bloser National Handwriting Contest, which makes him the third grader with the best cursive handwriting in the country.

ONE woman’s body art has people confused over the true meaning of the ink. The tattoo seems to be spelling out a word, but critics can’t seem to decipher its exact meaning. Redditor Yso… ...