Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why. The flowing ...

Editorials and other Opinion content offer perspectives on issues important to our community and are independent from the work of our newsroom reporters. One survey of handwriting teachers found that ...

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 ...

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.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

With the current trend in typography being a focus on digital and therefore a more simplified, minimalist aesthetic, cursive typefaces have fallen out of favour in recent years. “It’s not in trend ...

One survey of handwriting teachers found that just 37% wrote in cursive. And that was a dozen years ago. Bigstock Goodness, I hate writing cursive. Some people love it. They enjoy and admire the ...