Rachel Jeantel, the 19-year-old witness who took the stand in the recent case against George Zimmerman for the death of Trayvon Martin, stunned many when she admitted she couldn't read cursive. But ...

As a new school year begins, many children will be returning to classrooms filled with brand new computers, tablets and other tools essential to prep students for life in a plugged-in world. But as ...

The use of pencils, pens, paper workbooks and textbooks — along with the teaching of cursive handwriting and a stipulation ...

The first platform using DBSCAN-based point reconstruction to capture authentic handwriting and replay it as smooth, color-coded animated video. Handwriting is procedural — it’s not just what you ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (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.

Two and a half years ago, I presented a carefully thought-out argument for not requiring schools to teach cursive, calling it ...

Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why. The flowing ...

Discover how a school is bringing cursive writing back into the classroom with a fun and engaging after-school club, helping preteens embrace the art of penmanship in today's digital age.

“Handwriting was initially the first means of preserving information that was previously only passed down orally,” explains Donica. Before the invention of the printing press, copying information or ...

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 ...