“What I typically hear for keeping cursive is how nice it is when you receive a beautifully cursive-written letter ... s cool and fancy. It’s faster because you write all the letters together.” ...

Just how long have humans been using cursive writing? Scholars credit Niccolo ... Niccoli’s cursive was simple, sans curly-cues, and not every letter was connected. It was much easier to read ...

the old-school style of writing defined by flair and flourishes that are absent in block printing. It requires a certain patience, if not talent, to get the fancy letters spaced just so. Cursive ...

Our bible was the Peterson Directed Handwriting Manual. 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 ...

it would look more fancy.” Cursive, said Martin, offers creativity and an opportunity for self-expression. It’s a skill she said her students will use all their lives, from writing letters to reading ...

The delicately formed cursive letters of the America ... who has started to use cursive writing in her third grade lessons. “If you want to write a fancy party invitation or something you ...

It stated, among other things, that cursive style writing was not required ... especially when getting a letter from grandma. More importantly, it’s just a good skill to have, especially ...

I have always been proud of my handwriting ... letter g, to make serpentine curlicues out of our s’s, and to make stately, beautiful f’s that in my mind resembled fairy tale princesses wearing ...

Perhaps if we made penmanship that exciting, we might convince more students to take up letter writing on their own, especially now that the teaching of cursive is no longer required in most US ...

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 ...