My handwriting is getting worse, and by worse I mean sloppy, nearly illegible, the kind of script you’d expect from your physician but not from a Catholic-educated writer whose elementary school ...

A student at Orangethorpe Elementary School in Fullerton practices writing cursive as California grade school students are being required to learn cursive handwriting this year. REUTERS/Mike Blake A ...

BALTIMORE - If you're of a certain age, you probably remember learning cursive in elementary school. While penmanship has largely been erased from most curriculums, at some schools, it's still alive ...

The bulletin board at the front of Melissa Balzano's classroom in West Orange is decorated with hand-written lists her students wrote in September, expressing their "Hopes and Dreams for Third Grade." ...

As recently as a half-century ago, young American students would spend many lessons writing curved loops and diagonal lines, as they learned how to write in cursive. Over the years, though, computer ...

Jimmy Bryant is the director of archives and special collections at the University of Central Arkansas. April 30, 2013 In today’s society, people of all ages use e-mail and various forms of ...

In the computer age, it might seem as though proper penmanship is becoming less important with each passing day. Yet sloppy handwriting can hurt students' academic performance, from their class grades ...

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 ...

When it comes to written communications, before the advent of smartphones, texting and computers, cursive was the way to go. Examples of cursive writing date back to the time of the Romans, but like ...

Have you written a letter or signed your name and then stopped, self-conscious about the state of your cursive? Can anyone really read this? Should I start over? Maybe I should just scribble something ...

STAUNTON — A few weeks ago one of the reporters at The News Leader received an envelope from someone with a story idea. She opened it and realized it was a handwritten letter in cursive. Her first ...