A variety of educators and politicians across the country are pushing back against the death of cursive, resurrecting the rite of passage. Here's why. Ask anyone who completed third grade in the 1980s ...

Have you written a letter or signed your name and then stopped, self-conscious about the state of your cursive? Can anyone really read this? Should I start over? Maybe I should just scribble something ...

Cursive is making a comeback. The looping handwriting style defined by flowing, connected letters had faded from curricula in places such as the United States, Finland and Switzerland as schools ...

Not everyone is convinced cursive deserves a comeback tour.

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Florida lawmakers are putting pen to paper with a new push to make sure every elementary student can actually read Grandma’s handwriting, reviving a cursive requirement that’s technically already on ...

On a recent school day, Ms. Rivera’s fourth-grade class practiced their ascending and descending cursive strokes, tracing the letters in the air above their desks. Next, they assumed the proper ...

Educators and researchers who embrace cursive say that the skill can help students’ motor skills, improve their writing’s legibility and even help them better retain what they’re learning.