It was the first week of first grade—Mrs. Scougie's room—and we were learning cursive ... The only time I pen a handwritten letter is when I write to my grandmother. So when I hear people ...

Writing is, after all, a technology, and most technologies are sooner or later surpassed and replaced. As Tamara Plakins Thornton demonstrates in her book ... letters. In the future, cursive ...

Why teach cursive writing?'" Whittaker told Fox News Digital. "Printed letters, words, infographics and icons are used in books of all types, newspapers, signs and billboards, event tickets ...

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now, I know I'm dating myself, but do you remember when you learned cursive? If yes, then you remember learning how to link your letters ... to read and write cursive has ...

Cursive writing is a style of handwriting wherein letters of a word are interconnected ... our collective intellectual inertia. In the book Why Nations Fail, the authors point out that the ...

Take out a pen and paper and write your name in cursive. A MARTÍNEZ, HOST: I can do it. I know Steve can do it, too. If you're... INSKEEP: (Laughter) I've signed a few books recently, yes.

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 ...

That old style of writing is still largely undecipherable ... that their papers were in the right position, I wrote large cursive letters on the chalkboard, asking them to watch carefully and ...

Erica Ingber has something of a dark past when it comes to handwriting: The future elementary school principal got a C-minus in cursive in the fourth grade. But she’s ready to follow the curvy ...

McKnight believes students should be able to write in cursive to sign legal documents and read personal keepsake letters and historic documents such as the Declaration of Independence. It also ...

Is learning cursive writing essential for developing young ... suggesting that mastering handwriting frees children from worrying about “letter formation, spacing, those sorts of things ...