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

“It looks really fancy,” said student Noelle Jean, age 8. “It’s important to have neat handwriting.” The third-grader, already a fiction writer, said she thought cursive handwriting ...

Niccoli’s cursive was simple, sans curly-cues, and not every letter was connected. ... less fancy and more readable alternative to Spencerian. By the 1920s, ...

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 ...

Here’s what readers are saying in Sunday’s letters to the editor. ... Cursive: the write stuff ... something that isn’t happening either while keyboarding or even writing in print.

Cursive script for the Roman alphabet can vary from country to country and can reveal much about where and how you were taught, writes Adrienne Bernhard. Cursive eulogies are everywhere these days ...

The arguments in favor of cursive usually revolve around heritage or tradition. Some parents want their children to be able to read a letter from Grandma as well as our nation's founding documents.

Cursive letters are written on a chalkboard. 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.” ...

By World War II, manuscript, or print writing, was in standard use across the U.S. Today schoolchildren typically learn print in kindergarten, cursive in third grade. But they don’t master ...