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One survey of handwriting teachers found that just 37% wrote in cursive. And that was a dozen years ago. | Opinion

A reader says her son's fourth-grade teacher gave up on cursive, and it helped unlock a lifetime of academic achievement for him.

A 77-year-old who won an award for penmanship offers a compromise: Old folks teach kids how to write in cursive, and kids teach old folks how to use smartphones.

Teaching of cursive writing returns after falling to the wayside amid revised learning standards and emphasis on keyboarding. Backers say it promotes learning.

In 2016, California Democratic state Assemblymember Sharon Quirk-Silva sat with then-California Gov. Jerry Brown at an event where he signed baseball-type cards featuring the image of his dog, Colusa. But many of the recipients of the cards couldn’t read his cursive signature, Quirk-Silva recalled, much to the Democratic governor’s dismay. “The governor asked me what […]

To certain younger Americans, cursive writing is nothing more than an inscrutable collection of loops and squiggles. A growing number of states are trying to change that.

Invite him here. >> hell jog over and help himself. this is "the boston globe." fighting to save cursive from the common core. we talk about these in the presidential race but heres one thing about them. they do not include any requirements for handwriting instructions. education experts questioning whether students need to be taught two entirely different styles of handwriting. now a movement to install cursive writing is some kind of requirement. i remember learning cursive. i dont know how yo...

Circumstances where it is wonderful to be able to write a personal, legible note in cursive, and somebody who cant do that i think is at a disadvantage. >> okay. you have a recent blog in which you wrote in the "atlantic" that you said cursive handwriting is good teaching and good neuroscience. how so? >> the students of the brain have found that the development of the hand and the development of the brain really go together. and so when people are learning to write and when theyre learning curs...