Missouri legislators are again pushing to make learning to write cursive mandatory for kids in kindergarten through fifth ...

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 ...

New Jersey and Pennsylvania are among the most recent states to require schools to teach kids old fashioned handwriting ...

Our ongoing series A More Perfect Union aims to show that what unites us as Americans is far greater than what divides us. In this installment, we look at the power of the written word. Common Core ...

(The Conversation) – Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card, looked at it and said, “I can’t read cursive yet.” Then he handed it to me to read.

Is learning cursive writing essential for developing young minds, or is it an outdated skill being championed by nostalgic policymakers? The question sparked a lively and personal debate on a recent ...

Sierra Rivera and her older sister, Dahlia, were thrilled at the idea of baking up a batch of their grandmother’s pumpkin cookies last month for Thanksgiving, but when their dad gave them the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

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 ...

I don’t remember learning to write. I’ve just always known how. The curved C’s, the spiked T’s, the loops of lowercase L’s flowed from my fingers at an age so young that memory doesn’t bookmark the ...