Sherisse Kenerson in Alexandria, Virginia, leads a club of sixth- through eighth-graders who want to know the art of looping ...

“What does a cursive Q look like?” I asked my wife after dinner one recent night. We were helping our 5-year-old daughter form uppercase letters in manuscript when it occurred to me that I did not ...

In all my years of school, there was only one time I cried in class. It was the first week of first grade—Mrs. Scougie's room—and we were learning cursive. Q. I hated the letter. But it wasn't that I ...

Are handwriting skills being lost because of technology? Is there a need to continue teaching cursive handwriting in schools? As the nation’s educators put more emphasis on computer literacy, those ...

When I was a kid in the late 1920s, elementary school teachers taught us the capital cursive letter Q as a sort of hieroglyphic, something like the number 2 with pretentious and goofy curls exploding ...

A majority of Kansas school districts that responded to a survey about cursive writing said they still teach it and consider it an important skill, a state official told the Kansas Board of Education ...

Erica Ingber has something of a dark past when it comes to handwriting: The future elementary school principal got a C-minus in cursive in the fourth grade. But she’s ready to follow the curvy ups and ...

"It's much more likely that keyboarding will help students succeed in careers and in school than it is that cursive will," said Morgan Polikoff, assistant professor of K-12 policy and leadership at ...