Maria Pasquini is a Senior News Editor for PEOPLE, covering Human Interest. She has been with the brand since 2017. Cursive writing may have gone out of fashion, but numerous states across the country ...

Florida students will be required to demonstrate proficiency in cursive writing under a new state law taking effect this week ...

The curlicue letters of cursive handwriting, once considered a mainstay of American elementary education, have been slowly disappearing from classrooms for years. Now, with most states adopting new ...

The 2000s weren't a great decade for cursive handwriting. As computers became mainstream, many school districts dropped cursive lessons in favor of keyboard proficiency. But in recent years, the trend ...

Cursive handwriting is again part of the California elementary school curriculum under a bill signed into law this month. Assembly Bill 446, sponsored by Sharon Quirk-Silva (D-La Palma), amends the ...

Cursive isn't required in Indiana schools. Apparently they’re not teaching cursive at Abbott Elementary, either. Viewers of the Feb. 7 season three premiere of the hit ABC sitcom "Abbott Elementary" ...

NEW YORK (AP) — 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.

When Celia Batan sat down to write her graduate thesis, she started with one question: “What do we lose if we do not teach children how to connect letters instead of printing or typing?” On the ...

When Jack Lew was nominated to be Treasury secretary in 2013, President Barack Obama joked that as a condition of the appointment, Lew would have to learn to sign his name more legibly. The ...

I've been amazed by the amount of backlash against this. NPR's Steve Inskeep and Michele Norris bemoaned it on Twitter. I've seen a lot of other negative reaction to it elsewhere. When was the last ...