Back to School Cursive writing in American schools: Here's where this 'dying art' is still taught and why it matters There are 21 US states that currently have cursive in their curricula ...

Or maybe she wrote her name in cursive. After turning in a homework assignment focusing on vowels, a 7-year-old girl named Alyssa received some harsh words from her teacher.

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 ...

Jae C. Hong/AP Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools across the country after a generation of students who know only keyboarding, texting and printing out their words longhand.

A few moments later, the students all turn to their workbooks, writing out the letter, and words and sentences, all in cursive. Cursive, it seems, is making a comeback.

"Cursive is the hardest," said Armstrong, another pupil in Sardella's class. "When I'm playing with my friends, we do zigzags as cursive because we didn't know how," she said. "I'm starting to learn.

But I wouldn’t have kept my dad’s towing company business card where he wrote his cellphone number and the cursive words, “Your Daddy.” A person’s cursive carries a kind of emotional ...

Cursive loyalists lament the loss of cursive teaching in schools. WSJ's Andy Jordan reports from San Francisco. RALEIGH, N.C.—Across North Carolina and in dozens of other states, teachers are ...

At many Montessori schools, that is the belief. There, kids learn cursive as early as age 3—before they learn print, says Jesse McCarthy, host of The Montessori Education Podcast.