On October 13, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill making cursive handwriting instruction mandatory in 1st through 6th grades. The legislation passed this year, but it could have just ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pennsylvania is considering legislation that mandates cursive instruction in public schools. Angela Guthrie/iStock via Getty ...

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 ...

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 ...

After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters in ...

What do the U.S. Constitution, birthday cards and your signature have in common? They’re (likely) all in cursive. However, becoming fluent in this form of penmanship, once the hallmark of a good ...

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. If you have a child ...