Is cursive becoming a lost art? The 2010 Common Core standards began omitting cursive instruction, meaning that many members ...

Unlike probably most people, I enjoy the act of writing by hand — but I’ve always disliked signing my name. Why is that? I think it’s because signatures are supposed to be in cursive ...

Writing a letter in one’s own hand can be an artistic act. Handwriting animates paper. The bold flairs of calligraphic script shout for attention, while elegant flourishes of cursive sashay across the ...

The lifelong pen pals have written letters and made phone calls for over six decades, but never once saw each other in person ...

In late 1970, about a year after the group’s formation, The New York Times received a cryptic letter dated Oct. 9. Painted ...

Oklahoma joins 23 other states in requiring schools to teach the writing and reading skill, according to mycursive.com, a ...

Spencerian cursive was the preferred writing style of clerks in the U.S. government. Here are 12 examples of handwriting so perfect it could be a font. Spencerian cursive was replaced in 1890 by a ...

To my knowledge there is no Tennessee law that states that legal documents must be signed in cursive, however, Tennessee Code Annotated section 49-6-1034 states that cursive writing shall be taught in ...

For now, there isn't an international consensus. And with many hours of classroom time spent on traditional cursive writing, the benefits, some argue, may not be worth it.

(What ever happened to cursive writing?) “We think that our results can be partly explained by how handwriting activates different pathways to the same concept,” says Robert Wiley, a professor ...

(So far, evidence suggests that it’s the writing by hand that matters, not whether it’s print or cursive.) For adults, one of the main benefits of writing by hand is that it simply forces us to slow ...

I’m certainly no neurologist. In fact, if someone asked me what is the first word to come to mind when I think of my own ...