We know it's important for children to have competent handwriting skills, but does it matter if they write in cursive or ...

Not everyone is convinced cursive deserves a comeback tour.

Microsoft Word offers a variety of cursive and handwriting fonts (or typefaces, which is the more accurate name for the different font styles), and they’re actually provided by the operating system ...

They found that writing in cursive activates the brain waves and neural pathways used for learning and for memory. Learning ...

Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools across the country after a generation of students who know only keyboarding, texting and printing out their words longhand. Alabama and Louisiana ...

Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. As a new school year begins, many children will be returning to classrooms filled with brand new computers, tablets and other tools ...

My third-grade son is an anomaly. He actually enjoys a school subject, which — much to our chagrin — is being scrubbed from elementary schools nationwide. The subject in question is cursive ...

On a recent Tuesday night, I attended the parents’ open house at my daughters’ school, a Taft-era brick building in New Haven, Connecticut, which serves four hundred and fifty children, in grades ...

Cursive loyalists lament the loss of cursive teaching in schools. WSJ's Andy Jordan reports from San Francisco. RALEIGH, N.C.—Across North Carolina and in dozens of other states, teachers are ...