The Times asked readers for samples of their cursive and to talk about their relationship with old-fashioned, longhand writing with its loops, curls and dips. A new law will require all California ...

Long gone are the days that I'd practice my cursive for hours on end. Now, as my fingers canter clumsily across the keyboard, I regularly wonder whether bothering to develop this skill in the first ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -As children increasingly are exposed to screens from an early age, some Ohio students still learn to write with a flourish – and maybe getting added literacy benefits. The Ohio ...

Fourth-grade student Mandela Jones practices writing in cursive at Longfellow Elementary School in Pasadena. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) Erica Ingber has something of a dark past when it ...

It’s quaint to read how common it was in the late 1920s, when sound had just come to the movies, to assume it was just a fad. More than a few people thought films had been better without sound — that ...