Break out the No. 2 pencils, kids. Cursive handwriting, long mourned as a lost art, is coming back to New Jersey schools ...

Script is finding new life in after-school clubs where students can learn to loop and swoosh their handwriting.

More than a decade after it was phased out in most schools, elementary school students in California will begin learning cursive writing next year — thanks to a new law. Let's take a moment now for a ...

The group of preteens uncapped their markers and began practicing how to capitalise two new letters: “B” and “Q.” The lesson felt like a return to the basics. Only this time, the pupils were learning ...

The Times asked readers for samples of their cursive and to talk about their relationship with old-fashioned, longhand writing with its loops, curls and dips. A new law will require all California ...

Nearly 40 years later, the admonishments of my second-grade teacher at Thomas Jefferson Elementary in Anaheim still ring in my ears. “Messy! Messy!” I was a precocious 8-year-old, placed in a ...

At Holmes Middle School in Alexandria, the after-school Cursive Club meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

This basic life skill was phased out in 2010 with the introduction of the controversial Common Core curriculum — and our ...