Kids, don’t listen to the naysayers. Don’t fall for the story that it’s a dying art with no practical application in the modern world. Don’t allow computers with their word processing capabilities to ...

Sherisse Kenerson in Alexandria, Virginia, leads a club of sixth- through eighth-graders who want to know the art of looping ...

Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why. The flowing ...

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 ...

The Microsoft Word Web App makes Microsoft Word features available on your Web browser, providing you with the convenience of working on documents on a website where the documents are stored. It is a ...

At a middle school in Fairfax County, Virginia, students are learning how to loop their letters together and form words in ...

In California, students between first and sixth grade will learn to write in cursive under a new state law. Yes, cursive. But is cursive a skill that students or adults actually need? Try out these ...

It’s fun Friday in Jill Davis’ third-grade classroom in Mechanicsburg. Students start their day playing a game that puts their cursive writing skills to the test. Called “here comes the judge,” the ...

Just when we think traditional education is being tossed into the school trash bin, we get reminded that some of the old ways still actually work. Social studies and civics are being restored to ...

Here’s a list of things I never learned between kindergarten and eighth grade: the modern history and geography of any country outside of North America and Europe; a foreign language; anything related ...