Recently I came across a paper I wrote 60 years ago, in 1965, when I was a freshman at Cooperstown Central School. The English teacher required every ninth-grader to write an autobiography. I thought ...

After a decade-long absence, cursive writing is returning to Georgia classrooms, teaching students practical handwriting ...

House Bill 127, proposed by State Rep. Toby Overdorf, a republican, would require Florida students to learn both reading and ...

Docusign redesigned its signatures for an era when fewer people write by hand. Libbie Bischoff didn’t set out to reinvent the ...

Baltimore County Public Schools hopes to reverse this trend locally with a pilot program to reintroduce cursive instruction to second- through fourth-grade classes in November. More than 20 elementary ...

What do the U.S. Constitution, birthday cards and your signature have in common? They’re (likely) all in cursive. However, becoming fluent in this form of penmanship, once the hallmark of a good ...

Rep. Toby Overdorf, R-Palm City, has refiled legislation aimed at requiring public elementary-school students to learn ...

The post, which argued that cursive handwriting should continue to be taught in schools, garnered more than 500 comments. It's a touchy subject: Is there a reason schools should continue to teach ...

While the next Legislative session is still a couple of months away, Florida lawmakers are already busy filing new bills that could become law.

Over the years, the country has seen cursive recede from public education. In 2016, only 14 states taught cursive writing in ...