NEW YORK >> Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools across the country after a generation of students who know only keyboarding, texting and printing out their words longhand. Alabama ...

These days, many school assignments are completed online and essays are typed before being turned in. But a new state law in Alabama requires that schools teach children how to write in cursive.

Washington College in Maryland became the butt of the joke on late night TV last month after it changed its logo—George Washington’s cursive signature—because it was “difficult to read and not ...

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona will require public schools to teach cursive handwriting as one of a number of new education standards approved by the state Board of Education. The move amends the state's ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A new Florida bill is trying to, once again, make cursive writing a required subject in schools. HB 127, ...

Microsoft Word offers a variety of cursive and handwriting fonts (or typefaces, which is the more accurate name for the different font styles), and they’re actually provided by the operating system ...

: [POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: This story incorrectly states that the U.S. government removed cursive from “Common Core” standards. In fact, the common core standards are set by a group of governors ...

COLUMBUS - In a world of Snapchat and text messages, cursive handwriting has gone the way of the dodo. Ohio lawmakers want to revive the lost art of penmanship. A proposed law, which passed the Ohio ...

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LANSING, MI – State Rep. Brenda Carter held up a letter from her late son, Brian, who wrote when he was 9 years old that he wanted to be a police officer. Brian grew up to be an Army veteran, the ...

Joyce is 77; her granddaughter, Annalise, is 17. Both act their age. Joyce is the grandmotherly type, less mobile than she’d like to be because of various physical ailments. Annalise is a teenager ...