Letters to the Editor: If kids must learn cursive, old folks should learn to use smartphones A fourth-grade student practices writing in cursive at Longfellow Elementary School in Pasadena last month.

ATLANTA — In this digital age, who needs to know how to read and write cursive? The State of Georgia says all third through ...

And she was delighted. “I love how, at the end of the day, you see all the amazing stuff we can do with letters,” said Francesca, 6, who also answers to Cece.

Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why.

Starting this year, students in third, fourth and fifth grades will learn how to read and write in cursive as part of their ...

My own experience with cursive writing could have been traumatizing, had kids of the 1960s been as aware of the Trauma-Over-Everything-Syndrome that proliferates today. The teacher assumed we were ...

Cursive is somewhat of a lost art, but is it easy to retain? We asked 11 adults to try writing a sentence -- no Googling allowed.

Cursive writing was so yesterday in California, but in 2024 it’s back in class About half of students aren’t being taught cursive, but this year it will be required (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News ...

Over time, letter writing has become something I seldom do. Check writing (where at least we wrote a few words in cursive) is no longer the mode of payment for most of us.

Cursive writing may have gone out of fashion, but numerous states across the country are moving to reintroduce it into their elementary-school curriculums. Although Texas, the latest state to ...

Cursive in all its flowing permutations - the opal-shaped calligraphy of Spencerian, the simplified and precise Palmer Method; the spare D'Nealian, distinguished by its saucy "monkey tails"; the ...