(TNS) — 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 ...

Several states in recent years passed legislation mandating instruction in cursive handwriting.

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - Digital devices have some forgetting basic handwriting skills, but Louisiana students will no longer have that excuse. "Cursive writing shall be taught in all public schools.

That means that within decades, simple cursive could well be a secret language of the elite, its daily use no more common than Latin. But in the face of this trend, scholars from a number of ...

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Shawn Datchuk is an associate professor of special education at the University of Iowa. This essay from The Conversation is republished under a Creative Commons license. Recently, my 8-year-old son ...