Tony Rose, executive director of educational services at Edmond Public Schools, said the district's third- through fifth-grade teachers already teach some form of cursive. It’s required by the ...

Also called "script," a form of handwriting in which each letter of a word is connected to another letter. Contrast with "block lettering" or "printing," in which the individual letters do not touch.

Though it's considered an art, cursive writing can do wonders for your handwriting. Practicing cursive improves the look of ...

it’s how much you use cursive today,” she said. American’s skill with this connected form of script has been slowly waning for decades. Schoolchildren were once taught impeccable copperplate ...

Why is that? I think it’s because signatures are supposed to be in cursive, or else they don’t count. At least, that’s what I was taught growing up. (And I’m really not that old ...

If you cannot decipher cursive, you can’t really experience literature’s great works in their original version. Same for history’s more important letters, diaries, ledgers and other records, including ...

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 ...

“I think in another way our district has had a long-standing commitment to, I don’t want to say to the classics… but we have a commitment to tradition, excellence in every form. Cursive is a ...