Kate Gladstone is the founder of Handwriting Repair/Handwriting That Works and the director of the World Handwriting Contest. April 30, 2013 Handwriting matters, but not cursive. The fastest ...

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… ...

Defenders of cursive point out that kids of the past were able to learn both handwriting and “keyboarding” — what many of us called “typing.” ...

Failing to teach cursive handwriting can be bad for the brain development of children.

That's what I'm giving the state of Alabama for its new law requiring that cursive writing be taught in public schools. It's not a stellar idea, but it's not the worst thing to happen in our ...

Is cursive handwriting necessary to learn? That¿s under debate as some states work to ensure it is still taught in school.

Principal Sheryl Logan notes, "By the end of third grade, they can type 10 words per minute. However, I feel strongly that kids still need to learn how to write cursive." But the principal might ...

“Count me among the old-fashioned who think you should learn a foreign language, you should learn cursive and you should learn typing.” Cary, at the state education department, would agree.

Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools across the country after a generation of students who know only keyboarding, texting and printing out their words longhand.

Missouri’s handwriting bills want children to learn cursive in public schools, despite its redundancy in the digital age. But is it valuable?

Starting this school year, all Georgia students in grades 3-5 are expected to learn cursive, with the goal of reading and writing it by end of fifth grade. The state says cursive strengthens literacy, ...