Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This month, educational officials in Texas unveiled a new education code that will require second graders to learn how to write ...

Halle O'Brien writes during after-school cursive club, held by teacher Sherisse Kenerson, at Holmes Middle School in Alexandria, Va. In Sherisse Kenerson’s after-school classroom, Sandi takes out a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What do the U.S. Constitution, birthday cards and your signature have in common? They’re (likely) all in cursive. However, ...

I am writing in response to your Sept. 24 article on cursive handwriting. About 25 years ago, I studied graphoanalysis, which is the study of handwriting to determine the personality and character of ...

Most children are taught to print the first few years of grade school and, depending on the school, either they stay with printing throughout their school careers or they are also taught cursive, ...

For all the new things that schools will be called on to teach under the soon-to-be-implemented Common Core curriculum standards, it’s a skill that has been omitted that is causing controversy: ...

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 ...