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 installment, we look at the power of the written word. Common Core ...

From top left, Pam Davidson, Kathy Rotto, Gloria Box and Sue Standlee, all residents at Presbyterian Village North in Dallas, write to third-grade students in Karen Gunter's class at Good Shepherd ...

In a busy sixth-grade classroom at Millennial Tech Middle School Wednesday, Thomas Courtney taught a language arts lesson. He also teaches history and now penmanship. “I took my cursive writing so ...

As a new school year begins, many children will be returning to classrooms filled with brand new computers, tablets and other tools essential to prep students for life in a plugged-in world. But as ...

This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. Growing up in Saudi Arabia, I learned cursive with a fountain pen in the third grade as part of the standard curriculum. I wasn’t good at school, ...

Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Cursive handwriting, that classroom staple for so many generations of students, may be on the way out now that Common Core standards adopted by 45 states have dropped it from the ...

The Times asked readers for samples of their cursive and to talk about their relationship with old-fashioned, longhand writing with its loops, curls and dips. A new law will require all California ...

None of these things are possible without handwriting and, most likely, you'll need to be able to read cursive handwriting. For some, the writing is on the wall for handwriting. It is obsolete in a ...

Since the U.S. Department of Education dropped cursive writing from standard national curricula in 2011, the debate on the value of learning penmanship has raged. Some argue that the skill is obsolete ...

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 ...

Two and a half years ago, I presented a carefully thought-out argument for not requiring schools to teach cursive, calling it the equivalent of teaching about slide rules. I expected praise for my ...