Nabeel’s cursive is rivaled only by his typing: 40 words a minute. “If I had the choice,” he said, “I’d rather do it on the computer.” World & Nation Education Newsletter ...

Henderson, 44, said her son learned cursive basics in third grade but did not spend the hours that she did in school perfecting legible script and an attractive signature. Her daughter has not ...

Cursive writing may not have the power of prayer, sex education or evolution to create controversy for a school system, but the subject does stir heated argument.

LOS ANGELES – Erica Ingber has something of a dark past when it comes to handwriting: The future elementary school principal got a C-minus in cursive in the fourth grade. But she’s ready to ...

The National Archives is looking for volunteers to transcribe more than 200 years worth of documents. You can help, even if you can't read cursive.

I type, I Twitter, I Facebook and IM. I e-mail co-workers who sit feet from my desk, and text rather than call. The only time I pen a handwritten letter is when I write to my grandmother.

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 ...

Sadly, teaching cursive writing has been optional for many states across the country for about a decade or more now, and the 2010 federal Common Core standards did not include cursive instruction.

Some people might argue that cursive is a waste of time or that it’s old-fashioned and outdated — especially while there are other pressing matters to be taught in the classroom.