Perfect penmanship for Florida students is closer than ever, as the Florida House passes a bill requiring instruction and ...

The "Madrid Petrarch" of 1508 with Arrighi's chancery cursive script and Bartolomeo della Valle's coat of arms in the bottom margin. Image courtesy of the Biblioteca Nacional de España. As he ...

Being able to read the longhand script is a huge help because so many of the documents are written using it. “It’s not just a matter of whether you learned cursive in school, it’s how much ...

Nimah Gobir: She discovered that handwriting is an essential part of learning language. Writing by hand strengthens letter recognition and supports memory and recall—especially when taught alongside ...

But the cursive students learn now is a more modern style than the script used on the U.S. Constitution and other historical documents. Bookkeeper Platt Rogers Spencer created a fancy form of ...

The Ohio Department of Education and Workforce recently updated its five-year-old guidance for school districts that want to teach handwriting and cursive. Some districts in Northeast Ohio are ...

Maybe it was the fact that in the States, there’s no real rite of passage attached to learning to write in either script or cursive, except that you escaped the bad marks in the penmanship ...

While the future of the House bill appears to be written in clear, indelible ink, the script for the Senate version has yet ...

Is learning cursive writing essential for developing young minds, or is it an outdated skill being championed by nostalgic policymakers? The question sparked a lively and personal debate on a ...

A student from Pismo Beach has earned national recognition for a special feat: the best handwriting by a third grader on the West Coast.