Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This month, educational officials in Texas unveiled a new education code that will require second graders to learn how to write ...

Learning to read and write cursive was once a rite of passage for practically every American schoolchild. Until the early ...

Why Is This Still a Thing is a column exploring the anachronistic, seemingly-outdated technology that surrounds us. New columns appear every Friday. If you’ve recently seen a teen text or even a ...

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 ...

Many Erie County students will be learning a new subject this school year as cursive handwriting returns to Pennsylvania ...

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 ...

Jimmy Bryant is the director of archives and special collections at the University of Central Arkansas. April 30, 2013 In today’s society, people of all ages use e-mail and various forms of ...

A single sentence, uttered in the trial of George Zimmerman for the shooting of teenager Trayvon Martin, has catapulted an issue into the national spotlight. When asked if she could read a letter in ...