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After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters in ...

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 ...

Cursive writing may have gone out of fashion, but numerous states across the country are moving to reintroduce it into their elementary-school curriculums. Although Texas, the latest state to embrace ...

Is cursive handwriting the next casualty of the computer age? If you read the writing on the wall or, more appropriately, the typing on the computer, cursive's days are numbered, due in part to ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When Sara Singh began mulling whether to teach her third-graders cursive writing, a problem arose: She didn’t know pure cursive because she doesn’t write ...

Concerns over students not knowing how to form signatures has prompted one local group to question whether the state’s cursive requirement is worth the paper it’s written on. Julie Anderson, ...

ST. PAUL — Shoulders hunched and tongues curled, the third-graders at Horace Mann School push their pencils to practice a fading art. As they copy out their spelling lists, joining loops and lines ...

In a busy sixth-grade classroom at Millennial Tech Middle School Wednesday, Thomas Courtney taught a language arts lesson. He also teaches history and now penmanship. “I took my cursive writing so ...