“I like how my pencil feels on the paper when I write it,” Evi said from her classroom at Mary Queen of Apostles in New Kensington. “It’s very loopy.” Evi and her classmates are learning the art of ...

The dying art of cursive writing is the focus of a new exhibition at the New Brunswick Museum. The question is: What will it mean to the kids who can't read what's on display? It's a real conundrum, ...

Students in second grade began a lesson on cursive writing without using paper or pencils. They stood up and started to ...

Microscripts by Robert Walser at the Drawing Center (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) In grade school, cursive and print were treated like indicators of who we are.

Cursive writing, when done right, looks like art: Letters flow elegantly into each other, the pen or pencil never rising off nor smudging the page. It is pretty. It is formal. But is it useful enough ...