BALTIMORE -- What do the U.S. Constitution, birthday cards and your signature have in common? They're (likely) all in cursive. However, becoming fluent in this form of penmanship, once the hallmark of ...

Learning to read and write cursive was once a rite of passage for practically every American schoolchild. Until the early 20th century, children in the U.S. were generally taught to write in cursive ...

Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why. The flowing ...

Twelve-year-old Sandi Chandee wants to be a doctor when she grows up. But that’s not why she memorized one of the longest medical terms in the English language ...

Colleen Endrizzi fondly recalls when she first experienced the “lost language” as a homeschooled kindergartener. She learned it side by side with manuscript writing, a style in which letters are ...

Cursive may seem like an outdated skill. In fact, in 2010, The Common Core standards dropped it as a requirement to be taught in elementary schools. However, recent studies revealed that this ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Melody Eichbauer grew up learning cursive in grade school and scribbling exam answers until her hand cramped well into her college years. Eichbauer, a professor of medieval, legal ...

LOS ANGELES – Erica Ingber has something of a dark past when it comes to handwriting: The future elementary school principal got a C-minus in cursive in the fourth grade. But she’s ready to follow the ...