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.

Cursive writing lessons were once mandatory in schools. Many adults can remember cursive writing lessons on lined paper and time spent practicing this aesthetically appealing style of writing. But ...

Nearly 40 years later, the admonishments of my second-grade teacher at Thomas Jefferson Elementary in Anaheim still ring in my ears. “Messy! Messy!” I was a precocious 8-year-old, placed in a ...

Geoff Nunberg (@GeoffNunberg) is a linguist who teaches at the School of Information at the University of California at Berkeley. Is longhand doomed? People were predicting that as early as 1938, when ...

As followers of education controversies know by now, the Common Core academic standards, soon to be carried out by 45 states, don't require the teaching of cursive handwriting. The curricular gap has ...

Long before I became Schools Chancellor, or even a teacher, I understood the value of cursive handwriting. Like many of you, I remember learning the Palmer Method of cursive in grade school, and I ...

Since Missouri does not require cursive writing education, one of our viewers wants to know: Is cursive writing dying?

When Edbert Aquino picks up his yellow No. 2 pencil and glides it between the blue and red lines of his paper, the result is absolutely perfect cursive handwriting. The lines swoop up to the headline ...