Cursive handwriting plays a part in developing them. Yoder said it helps stimulate the brain in a variety of ways that can have long-lasting implications in a way that typing does not.

RALEIGH, N.C.—Across North Carolina and in dozens of other states, teachers are committing what once would have been heresy: They are writing off cursive script. At a growing number of schools ...

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.

NEW YORK (AP) — 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.

People often credit my good handwriting to my Catholic school education—like a nun with a ruler and a taste for corporal ...

Baerg said she learned cursive in third grade, but has never used it and has difficulty deciphering her parents' handwriting.

But cursive instruction was in decline long before 2010, when most states adopted the Common Core curriculum standards, which say nothing about handwriting.

Cursive handwriting, that classroom staple for so many years of students, may be on the way out now that the Common Core standards, adopted by 45 states, have dropped it from the curriculum in ...

The Iowa Reading Research Center has released a free cursive instruction online tool to help teachers and parents offer a ...