COLUMBUS, GA (WTVM) – Today, January 23rd, is National Handwriting Day! Our friends at Chattahoochee Valley Weekend gave a simple cursive test to some of our staff to evaluate their penmanship skills.

Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card, looked at it and said, “I can’t read cursive yet.” Then he handed it to me to read. If you have a child ...

That means that within decades, simple cursive could well be a secret language of the elite, its daily use no more common than Latin. But in the face of this trend, scholars from a number of ...

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - Digital devices have some forgetting basic handwriting skills, but Louisiana students will no longer have that excuse. "Cursive writing shall be taught in all public schools.

Cursive handwriting, a one-time mainstay of communication and mark of status, has become a rarity on the cusp of extinction. We're wondering if you think that's a good thing for all those future thank ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pennsylvania is considering legislation that mandates cursive instruction in public schools. Angela Guthrie/iStock via Getty ...