The loops and curls of cursive handwriting have all but vanished from college essay exam blue books. On rare occasions when college students write by hand, nearly all of them use what educators call ...

I remember learning cursive in second grade, comparing the cursive “r” to the print “r” and thinking I’ll never figure this out. Then the teachers would write on the blackboard as cleanly and ...

Is cursive becoming a lost art? The 2010 Common Core standards began omitting cursive instruction, meaning that many members of Gen Z have never been taught how to read or write cursive, The Atlantic ...

Because the national Common Core State Standards adopted by 45 states do not specifically address cursive writing instruction in elementary schools, many states are following suit and leaving the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

The Times asked readers for samples of their cursive and to talk about their relationship with old-fashioned, longhand writing with its loops, curls and dips. A new law will require all California ...

FULLERTON, California (Reuters) - A generation of children who learned to write on screens is now going old school. Starting this year, California grade school students are required to learn cursive ...

This fall’s incoming college freshman were born in 1992. The year of the L.A. riots. The year Dan Quayle misspelled “potato.” The year that brought us Whoopi Goldberg as a ...

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 ...

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 ...