Most communication that we read is in print, so people tend to think, 'Why teach cursive writing?'" Whittaker told Fox News Digital. "Printed letters ... Fort Jackson, N.Y., developed a new ...

Writing out the same word again and again in cursive may bring back bad memories ... be able to at least write a grocery list or a love letter. I really think that that is important for us humans.” ...

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.

We also want to know how learning cursive affects the development of reading and writing skills. In cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a word are joined with connecting strokes, such as in ...

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's exactly right. So the motion of writing cursive is a little bit different than when we get to write those straight letters that we learn in elementary school. So in printing, we typically ...

And even some elementary school teachers confess they don’t know how to write in cursive. This might sound like the handwriting apocalypse doomsayers have warned of for generations. But it’s ...

Almost all said they did so on laptops and phones or sometimes on paper in block letters. For many young people, “handwriting,” once essentially synonymous with cursive, has come to mean the ...

The Times asked readers for samples of their cursive and to talk about their relationship with old-fashioned, longhand writing with its ... primary source documents, letters, and more,” said ...

If you're like many digitally savvy Americans, it has likely been a while since you've spent much time writing by hand. The laborious process of tracing out our thoughts, letter by letter ...

(Photo by Steve Wynn) The girls’ father, Steve Wynn, translated Grandma’s cursive handwriting into more familiar block letters for them and before long they all had bellies full of the warm ...