Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tyara Brooks teaches her fourth-grade students how to write in cursive at Longfellow Elementary School in Pasadena. (Christina ...

Pencil-and-paper asks more of a student than a keyboard. Maybe that’s the point, says expert on language and literacy ...

A few months ago, I pulled out a kids’ book for my seven-year-old to read to me. She opened the first page, shook her head and handed it back. “I can’t read this,” she said. “It’s in cursive.” First, ...

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 ...

Twelve-year-old Sandi Chandee wants to be a doctor when she grows up. But that's not why she memorized one of the longest medical terms in the English language ...

Sophomore Andrew Forbes of Nashville, Tennessee, used cursive everyday in elementary school, from third grade through eighth grade. He was required to write out all his papers, worksheets, and notes ...

Cyrillic is the first hurdle for those learning Russian or Ukrainian. Just when you think you have mastered the printed ...