The post, which argued that cursive handwriting should continue to be taught in schools, garnered more than 500 comments. It's a touchy subject: Is there a reason schools should continue to teach ...

As a product of Catholic school education, it’s hard for me to imagine a world where good penmanship doesn’t matter. In fact, I still remember a day in sixth grade when I was instructed to re-write a ...

The News recently reported that cursive writing soon may become a casualty of budget cuts. But I expect it is doomed no matter what. Sometime soon, before each of our thumbs has evolved down to the ...

In a letter to the editor Sunday, a writer recounted an experience with a high school junior who was unable to read cursive handwriting. The writer noted that a friend had to read notes sent in ...

Nine-year-old Kelsey Mardis began learning cursive at the beginning of the school year with the rest of her classmates, and she enjoys it so much that she now has a favorite cursive letter — ...

Suzanne Baruch Asherson is a occupational therapist at the Beverly Hills Unified School District in California and a national presenter for Handwriting Without Tears, an early childhood education ...

Have you written a letter or signed your name and then stopped, self-conscious about the state of your cursive? Can anyone really read this? Should I start over? Maybe I should just scribble something ...

Recently, a new manuscript alphabet has been developed. The new alphabet was designed to facilitate transition from manuscript to cursive handwriting. This study compared cursive handwriting samples ...