"Yeah, that makes sense," people think when they imagine cursive-deprived children who can't read grandma's letter or the Declaration of Independence. Except no, it doesn't make sense. At best it ...

If pen retailers and state legislators are to be believed, cursive handwriting is facing an existential threat. Since the advent of the Common Core standards—which emphasize keyboard skills over ...

Sad news! One unexpected off-shoot of the internet revolution has been the slow death of cursive writing. And one unanticipated consequence, according to The New York Times, is that the non ...

Whatever happens to a bill requiring Louisiana schoolchildren to recite part of the Declaration of Independence every day, they soon will be able to read it in manuscript.

The delicately formed cursive letters of the America’s Declaration of Independence helped form a nation. But that sense of elegance is seldom seen in daily handwriting.

Don't forget that if one cannot write cursive, one cannot read cursive. Just think: Some areas of our county are raising kids who will not be able able to read the Declaration of Independence, or ...

Perhaps more compelling: Learning to read and write cursive means you may decipher “primary documents,” from the aforementioned Declaration of Independence to war letters or old recipes ...

The U.S. Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and names of those who signed it are all written in cursive. But in the age of emails, text messages and emoji, ...

NEW YORK (CBS) — Today, Jan. 23, is National Handwriting Day, celebrated on the birthday of John Hancock. But nowadays, penmanship – especially cursive – is becoming a lost art.