Studies comparing the differences between writing and typing often don't distinguish between cursive and print, he said. And in studies that do compare the two, the results aren't strong, he said.

Cursive writing is still taught in some schools within the U.S., although, it's not nationally mandated or emphasized. In ...

SOMERSET — From educational requirement to after-school activity, cursive writing is making a comeback – at least in one classroom at Somerset Public Library. “Up to the attic, through the ...

Their forte was teaching us the Palmer Penmanship Method, drilling into us the importance of forming big looping lines when we wrote the letter g, to make serpentine curlicues out of our s’s ...

In Holly Martin’s third-grade class at Saint Columbkille in Brighton, the old-fashioned chalkboard has been replaced with an electronic screen. But Martin uses the screen to teach her students a ...

Handwriting matters, but not cursive. The fastest, clearest handwriters join only some letters: making the easiest joins, skipping others, using print-like forms of letters whose cursive and ...

DANBURY, Conn. — Francesca Curatilo attended three camps this summer: wilderness, martial arts and — in the final days before the start of school — cursive. Yes, cursive. On a sunny morning ...

The majority, 55 percent, wrote with some elements resembling print-writing, others resembling cursive. When even most handwriting teachers do not themselves use cursive, why glorify it?

Just how long have humans been using cursive writing? Scholars credit Niccolo Niccoli, a 15th Century Italian, for “inventing” our modern-day cursive, although it had been evolving long… ...

Peterson is a particular type of cursive style in which the letter P has an antenna; the capital Q looks like a fancy number two; and the Z has a funny loop that dipped below the baseline.

Given longhand's waning popularity, lawmakers in several states, including Tennessee, are now trying to legislate a cursive comeback. The arguments in favor of cursive usually revolve around heritage ...