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 ...

Dear Heloise: I sympathize to some extent with the writer in a recent column of yours lamented how doctor’s offices will say ...

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 ...

Although cursive handwriting “is a dying field,” as one teacher said, it has made a comeback in some schools, including one in Maine where two students won awards this month. By Jesus Jiménez For ...