PHOENIX – With eyebrows furrowed and fingers holding pencils in clawlike grips, third-graders at Lowell Elementary School in Mesa, Arizona, were tackling an assignment involving cursive writing.

This article is presented in partnership with CA Lottery. In an age when students can easily type 60 words per minute on their touchscreen devices, you would think that the art of handwriting would be ...

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 ...

If you have kids or attend school yourself, you might have noticed that cursive handwriting—that loopy, continuous written style popular in the 20th century and recently cast aside in favor of ...

Sherisse Kenerson stood in the front of her classroom Thursday afternoon at Holmes Middle School in Lincolnia, Virginia, and explained how to write the letters “M” and “N” in cursive. Then, she had ...