Many people of a certain age remember practicing loops and waves, moving our small hands clutching pencils across pages with light blue dotted and solid lines. But in many schools, that elementary ...

Pennsylvania schools are required to teach cursive handwriting under a new law. Gov. Josh Shapiro announced on social media Wednesday that, using his "best cursive," he signed House Bill 17 into law. ...

Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why.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

National Handwriting Day was this month. While it may seem like a silly holiday, it’s getting serious traction, even among lawmakers. While many classrooms are filled with computers, smart phones and ...

Rothman is managing editor at TIME. German children work on their handwriting, circa 1950. Rothman is managing editor at TIME. The pencil salesman’s lament will likely sound familiar: “Penmanship,” he ...

Over a half century ago, in school, we began learning cursive handwriting. Above the blackboard on a cork background was stapled the letters of the alphabet in capital and lower case in cursive ...