ST. PAUL — Shoulders hunched and tongues curled, the third-graders at Horace Mann School push their pencils to practice a fading art. As they copy out their spelling lists, joining loops and lines ...

Concerns over students not knowing how to form signatures has prompted one local group to question whether the state’s cursive requirement is worth the paper it’s written on. Julie Anderson, ...

Cursive writing was removed from schools’ “Common Core” standards, which are set by a group of governors and school administrators from around the country, in 2010. Wait, this is a public health ...

Dear teacher, thank you for teaching me how to write in cursive. Yes, you read that correctly: One of the oldest human technologies — handwriting — is mounting a comeback. Once a fixture in American ...

Two hundred and fifty years ago in Pennsylvania, the Declaration of Independence was written and signed in cursive.