Data analysis showed that cursive handwriting primed the ... Karin James and Laura Engelhardt found that handwriting (but not typing or tracing letter shapes) activated a unique "reading circuit ...

A texting thumb might be more to the point these days: most of us can barely scrawl our signature, though we spent years in childhood painstakingly tracing the cursive alphabet on dotted thirds.

The skill fell out of favor in schools, but states including Iowa are bringing it back and could see benefits, writes Shawn Datchuk.

For weeks the students have been learning, and complaining, about cursive writing. Like Latin, it’s a dead language — er, lost art — and I was determined to resurrect it. The students completed ...

hence making the tracing of cursive writing by eye movement impossible, until now. The new eye-writing technology works by tricking the eye's neuromuscular machinery into voluntarily producing ...

The dying art of cursive writing is the focus of a new exhibition ... People who want to trace their roots will need access to archival documents, she said, and nearly all of those original ...

The Ohio Department of Education and Workforce has spurred another debate on the worth of teaching cursive handwriting in the digital age by updating its five-year-old teaching guidance for ...

Legislation that would require cursive handwriting instruction in Pennsylvania schools was unanimously approved by the House ...