Cursive – the pinnacle of quick and elegant penmanship, or just fancy, antiquated squiggles? However you choose to describe it, students in Louisiana’s public and charter schools will get ...

Cursive writing is still taught in some schools within the U.S., although, it's not nationally mandated or emphasized. In ...

Bookkeeper Platt Rogers Spencer created a fancy form of cursive with whorls and flourishes that was widely taught in schools starting in 1850, according to the National Museum of American History.

Cursive letters are written on a chalkboard. Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card, looked at it and said, “I can’t read cursive yet.” ...

The efficient writing style once thrived in U.S. businesses and schools, but researchers fret that today’s lack of cursive literacy may have a surprising impact on history—and ourselves.