Tyara Brooks teaches her fourth-grade students how to write in cursive at Longfellow Elementary School in Pasadena. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) “Messy! Messy!” Nearly 40 years later, the ...

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 ...

What do the U.S. Constitution, birthday cards and your signature have in common? They’re (likely) all in cursive. However, ...

Since the late 1800s, when the typewriter struck the first blow to penmanship, handwriting has become an increasingly obsolete skill, and therefore a powerful symbol of the past. It’s an idealized ...

Well, it’s finally over. My stint as a seventh grade English Language Arts co-teacher has come to an end, but not without a Finale. For weeks the students have been learning, and complaining, about ...

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 is an art. It’s woven into the very fabric of the United States constitution. Yet, everywhere we look, it’s literally being written out of existence. Like a sandcastle built at the edge of the ...

Cursive handwriting is disappearing from the list of required courses at U.S. schools, so one New Jersey grandmother is making sure her grandson's schoolmates know how to loop their Ls and curl their ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- If cursive writing is a lost art, Debbie Younger may be the modern-day “Indiana Jones" of penmanship. The Fountain grandmother is on a new crusade to bring back ...

Denver Stanley British Primary students Liam Cassidy, Gavin Barringer and his older sister Ashlyne. This is the digital age and I’m looking at something many have thought was increasingly near ...

More and more states are dropping handwriting from their core curricula. Jan. 24, 2011 -- The handwriting may be on the wall for cursive. At least that's what some people fear as schools across the ...