What’s something kids can’t do, but teachers don’t teach? If you answered “cursive,” write a flowing capital letter “A” by hand on your report card. Once a staple of classrooms and ...

Palmer reportedly developed the style for business writing — and "streamlined the flourishes" of Spencerian cursive with his new system. Many business colleges and public schools adopted the ...

COMPTON, Calif.—In a classroom at Anderson Elementary on a recent Thursday, third-graders lined up to have their pencils sharpened to a crisp point before beginning a cursive lesson. The ...

Cursive handwriting has long been cherished as a hallmark of eloquence and sophistication. For generations, children were taught to flourish their letters in a continuous, flowing style that was ...

Unlike Palmer-style cursive, in which every letter is joined to another in a series of endless curves and loops, italic joins only some. That makes it a far more natural way of writing.

Letters of each word gracefully flowed from one to the next in a style familiar to those of ... translated Grandma’s cursive handwriting into more familiar block letters for them and before ...

“It’s very loopy.” Evi and her classmates are learning the art of cursive writing, the old-school style of writing defined by flair and flourishes that are absent in block printing. It ...

Spencerian cursive was the preferred writing style of clerks in the U.S. government. Here are 12 examples of handwriting so perfect it could be a font. Spencerian cursive was replaced in 1890 by a ...

Various professions had their own signature style of handwriting as well ... The physical act of forming the letters helps cursive writers cement these spelling patterns in a way writing in ...

Children who are expected to learn it will need to see cursive modeled for them and will need more time in the day developing this new writing style. If this new requirement is to meet its ...