“I like how my pencil feels on the paper when I write it,” Evi said from her classroom at Mary Queen of Apostles in New Kensington. “It’s very loopy.” Evi and her classmates are learning the art of ...

The signature of Declaration of Independence signer John Hancock on an envelope. I was thinking about how difficult it has become to maintain good penmanship in the internet era. When I was in grammar ...

I was thinking about how difficult it has become to maintain good penmanship in the internet era. When I was in grammar school, just about all our writing was cursive as opposed to block letters, and ...

From the start of 2024, the state of California reinstated the requirement that first through sixth graders in public schools learn to write in cursive. The handwriting technique stopped being taught ...

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 ...

It’s a familiar refrain. Parents lament that technology is turning good, legible handwriting into a lost art form for their kids. In response, lawmakers in state after state – particularly in the ...

Suzanne Baruch Asherson is a occupational therapist at the Beverly Hills Unified School District in California and a national presenter for Handwriting Without Tears, an early childhood education ...

As the new school year begins, all those little hands in elementary school are once again at the center of a fierce debate: Is cursive writing a skill that’s still worth teaching, or an out-of-date ...