Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Times asked readers for samples of their cursive and to talk about their relationship with old-fashioned, longhand writing ...

New Jersey and Pennsylvania are among the most recent states to require schools to teach kids old fashioned handwriting ...

I am writing in response to your Sept. 24 article on cursive handwriting. About 25 years ago, I studied graphoanalysis, which is the study of handwriting to determine the personality and character of ...

"That is what is on the forefront of our minds. Unfortunately, cursive is not one of those things." When Silbernagel is able to find an opening during the school day for her students to work on their ...

The Common Core standards don’t require instruction in cursive writing but some states — including Alabama, Tennessee, Louisiana and California — have mandated cursive in public schools. With typing ...

In California, students between first and sixth grade will learn to write in cursive under a new state law. Yes, cursive. But is cursive a skill that students or adults actually need? Try out these ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Twenty-three second-graders file into Virginia Edwards’ technology classroom at Grant Ranch School, take a seat at their iMacs, pull on headphones and launch ...

Among the staff at Topgolf, 11th-grader Augustine Fredericks has a rare and coveted skill. When a customer orders a celebratory dessert, the teenager is often summoned to pipe a fancy “happy birthday” ...

Patience Gozaydin, 7, a second grade student at Frankstown Elementary practices cursive writing Thursday in Ann Franco’s class. Mirror photo by Cynthia Wise The flow of motion from putting pencil to ...

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Many people of a certain age remember practicing loops and waves, moving our small hands clutching pencils across pages with light blue dotted and solid lines. But in many schools, that elementary ...