NORFOLK, Va. (WVEC) -- For centuries, cursive writing was a pillar of elementary education and a crucial tool for recording and preserving history. Now, cursive barely is being taught. At the ...

When Jack Lew was nominated to be Treasury secretary in 2013, President Barack Obama joked that as a condition of the appointment, Lew would have to learn to sign his name more legibly. The secreta… ...

As a result, the physical act of writing in cursive leads to increased comprehension and participation. Interestingly, a few years ago, the College Board found that students who wrote in cursive ...

Cursive writing (and, thus, reading cursive) is not formally taught any longer and was dropped from the Common Core curriculum standards in 2013. What are the current and future implications of ...

Students connect with seniors through letters in cursive 04:40. Our ongoing series A More Perfect Union aims to show that what unites us as Americans is far greater than what divides us. In this ...

Do you remember the last time you wrote in cursive? Do you still know how to read it? If so, the National Archives is looking for your help ...

As Maria Konnikova outlines in this New York Times piece, some people suffer brain injuries that damage their ability to write and understand print—while their ability to comprehend cursive remains.

The problem, too, is older than Common Core. Among students who went to U.S. elementary schools in the 1990s, only 15% used cursive on their SAT essay section, CollegeBoard reported.Within the ...

I understand that handwriting imprints the memory better — I notice it even in adulthood — but I am skeptical that there is a reason the handwriting is better done in cursive.