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 ...

Cursive started falling out of favor in U.S. schools after 2010 when most states adopted Common Core academic standards.

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 ...

For weeks the students have been learning, and complaining, about cursive writing. Like Latin, it’s a dead language — er, lost art — and I was determined to resurrect it. The students completed ...

The curlicue letters ... writing is left to states, districts, schools and teachers." Proponents of cursive say that many of the country's historical documents were written in the fancy script ...

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 ...

The third grader at St. Brigid School in Portland moved her pencil slowly across the paper, practicing the letter ... cursive, including helping students better retain the information they are ...

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 ...

Windows 10 currently has twenty Cursive (or “Script” typefaces), two Handwriting typefaces, three Blackletter typefaces, one Greek-Roman, and once Curly or Fancy typeface. Typefaces often fall ...