(The Conversation) – Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card, looked at it and said, “I can’t read cursive yet.” Then he handed it to me to read.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fourth-grade student Mandela Jones practices writing in cursive at Longfellow Elementary School in Pasadena. (Christina House / ...

Many people of a certain age remember practicing loops and waves, moving our small hands clutching pencils across pages with light blue dotted and solid lines. But in many schools, that elementary ...

To understand why cursive writing seems to be a dying art, you have to go all the way back to…well, only 2007, actually. It ...

Back to school doesn't have to mean swapping high-tech gadgets for low-tech notebooks. These new apps are so much fun your child won't even realize they're educational. For ages 5 and younger In ...

Remember all the loops, curls, and swirls involved with learning how to write in cursive? Well, movies aren't the only thing that can be rebooted. Cursive has been made part of the ELA Standards' ...

A discussion with the creator of a new cursive handwriting style being taught in Kentucky schools. New this school year, Kentucky students are required to learn cursive handwriting. Many of them will ...