Cursive – the pinnacle of quick and elegant penmanship, or just fancy, antiquated squiggles? However you choose to describe it, students in Louisiana’s public and charter schools will get bigger doses ...

In Holly Martin’s third-grade class at Saint Columbkille in Brighton, the old-fashioned chalkboard has been replaced with an electronic screen. But Martin uses the screen to teach her students a ...

A project that turns handwritten letters seen on homeless signs into fonts gets a big boost from global typeface provider Monotype. Leslie Katz led a team that explored the intersection of tech and ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Sierra Rivera and her older sister, Dahlia, were thrilled at the idea of baking up a batch of their grandmother’s pumpkin cookies last month for Thanksgiving, but when their dad ...

Unlike probably most people, I enjoy the act of writing by hand — but I’ve always disliked signing my name. Why is that? I think it’s because signatures are supposed to be in cursive, or else they don ...

Cursive writing was supposed to be dead by now. Schools would stop teaching it. Kids would stop learning it. Everyone would stop using it. The Common Core standards adopted by most states in recent ...

Cursive writing is still very much taught in Horry County Schools. Leaders like Shamara Kinlaw at Aynor Elementary says that ...

“Now I can write my name in cursive with my eyes shut, I call it my signature. It also helped me to write quicker and it improved my writing.” The new law, which takes effect in January and adds ...