I normally print because it is faster. Cursive tends to be more neat and legible but not useful when taking notes. Due to computers, neat handwriting is not an essential tool to have.

Teaching kids to make those loopy letters is still a priority for Mother Jones Elementary. Another boy, named Dante, says he likes how neat his writing looks in cursive.

Currently, 21 states require some sort of cursive handwriting instruction, according to mycursive.com, a website that tracks cursive writing requirements nationwide.

Students' reading and writing suffer when they don't learn script. Why Students Need to Know Cursive Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card ...

Some people believe children still should learn how to write in cursive while others believe it's time to erase the form of handwriting from curriculums.

Cursive handwriting takes patience, and teaching kids patience can have wonderful spin-off effects. Not everything we learned in past generations is as applicable today.

Most people can't even write in cursive with their hands, but new technology is training those who have lost motor control to write with their eyes.

Most of us learned cursive in school, but for children growing up in a world of laptops, smartphones, and tablets, writing things by hand is fading away.

The writing may be on the wall for cursive handwriting. With a growing number of schools opting not to teach cursive, it may be on its way to becoming a disappearing art. So one New Jersey ...

Others say cursive helps students write faster than print, and that they need it to develop a signature. Technology Took Priority So why didn’t the common-core writers include cursive?

Lawmakers in state after state – particularly in the South – are carving out space in teachers’ classroom time to keep the graceful loops of cursive writing alive for the next generation.

National Handwriting Day celebrates history and influence of penmanship in a time when pens, pencils and paper are lose ground to the QWERTY keyboard.