Handwriting requirements were cut from school curricula around the world. Now it’s looping back, riding on a wave of evidence.

I type all day. I swipe and tap on my phone. I scribble notes to myself on paper. I’m happy with my mostly-digital life. But every now and then I’ll get a handwritten note—from an old lady, ...

Break out the No. 2 pencils, kids. Cursive handwriting, long mourned as a lost art, is coming back to New Jersey schools ...

More than a decade after it was phased out in most schools, elementary school students in California will begin learning cursive writing next year — thanks to a new law. Let's take a moment now for a ...

It’s a familiar refrain. Parents lament that technology is turning good, legible handwriting into a lost art form for their kids. In response, lawmakers in state after state – particularly in the ...

Sitting in the newly renovated St. Anastasia School playground as a fifth grader four years ago doing her homework, Maritza Escamilla was approached by a student from nearby Glen Flora Elementary ...

Have your children ever approached you and asked, “How/why do you write like that? I wish I knew how to do that.” We have. We’re talking about cursive writing, a skill that went by the wayside more ...

Should children be required to learn cursive? A New Jersey legislator says so. Assemblywoman Angela McKnight has introduced a bill that would require elementary schools to teach kids how to read and ...