NORFOLK, Va. (WVEC) -- For centuries, cursive writing was a pillar of elementary education and a crucial tool for recording and preserving history. Now, cursive barely is being taught. At the Williams ...

Pennsylvania schools are required to teach cursive handwriting under a new law. Gov. Josh Shapiro announced on social media Wednesday that, using his "best cursive," he signed House Bill 17 into law. ...

Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why. The flowing ...

Rothman is managing editor at TIME. German children work on their handwriting, circa 1950. Rothman is managing editor at TIME. The pencil salesman’s lament will likely sound familiar: “Penmanship,” he ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Break out the No. 2 pencils, kids. Cursive handwriting, long mourned as a lost art, is coming back to New Jersey schools thanks to ...

Many people of a certain age remember practicing loops and waves, moving our small hands clutching pencils across pages with light blue dotted and solid lines. But in many schools, that elementary ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In one of his final acts, Gov. Phil Murphy signed a new state law that mandates cursive instruction for grades three through five ...

Since the late 1800s, when the typewriter struck the first blow to penmanship, handwriting has become an increasingly obsolete skill, and therefore a powerful symbol of the past. It’s an idealized ...

National Handwriting Day was this month. While it may seem like a silly holiday, it’s getting serious traction, even among lawmakers. While many classrooms are filled with computers, smart phones and ...