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… ...

The SREB showed the number of cursive-teaching states dropping from 12 down to six that year. ... we’re in a unique place in which most Americans alive learned cursive writing, ...

The Common Core State Standards have ended lessons in cursive writing, but lawmakers in some states are trying to change that. Blake Farmer of WPLN reports on an effort in Tennessee to revive cursive.

Lawmakers in state after state – particularly in the South – are carving out space in teachers’ classroom time to keep the graceful loops of cursive writing alive for the next generation.

Help raise that number, so our nonprofit newsroom stays strong in the face of federal cuts. ... So the ability to read and write cursive has been fading from American society.