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

Tyara Brooks teaches her fourth-grade students how to write in cursive at Longfellow Elementary School in Pasadena. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) “Messy! Messy!” Nearly 40 years later, the ...

Handwriting requirements were cut from school curricula around the world. Now it’s looping back, riding on a wave of evidence.

Who needs a pencil and paper when we can just type or generate whatever text we need to? Actually, New Jersey students will, ...

Students in New Jersey will soon learn cursive in school, thanks to a law signed by Gov. Phil Murphy.

Why aren’t students being taught cursive writing? Karissa Lazar asked at a recent meeting of Hazleton Area School Board. “That’s a great question,” Superintendent Brian Uplinger replied. “It’s a lost ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio The swirling lines from Linden Bateman's pen have been conscripted into a national fight to keep cursive writing in American classrooms. Cursive. Penmanship. Handwriting. In years gone ...

In one of his final acts in office, Gov. Philip D. Murphy signed a bill on Monday requiring third, fourth and fifth graders ...

To the editor: As a 77-year-old who won my school’s penmanship competition in fourth grade, I’m pretty happy that California kids will be learning cursive handwriting. (“Learning cursive in school, ...

Elementary school teachers in New Jersey should be teaching cursive writing in 2026-27 thanks to a new law signed by Phil ...

Technology may have become a staple at home and in school, and Grand Forks educators maybe mulling an even earlier start to keyboarding classes, but traditional cursive continues to survive in some ...

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 ...