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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 ...

The subject in question is cursive handwriting, which P.J., age 9, first started mastering this year. He enjoys practicing it as he completes book reports and pens original stories.

In 1956, Look magazine pronounced handwriting “out-of-date,” yet cursive still claimed a secure place in the curriculum for decades. ... if he’d like me to read it to him.

The art of writing. Handwriting is in danger of becoming a lost art form—in the past 100 years, there have been drastic shifts in style as well as the frequency of use.

Assembly Bill 446 would require cursive handwriting instruction in first through sixth grade. The bill comes from Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva, D-Fullerton, a former public elementary school ...

Today’s adults who mastered cursive back when it was a requirement in school don’t really use it anymore, and they haven’t for a long time. In 2012, one survey of handwriting teachers found ...