"It's seeing the writing on the wall," said Patricia Granada, principal at Eagle View Elementary in Fairfax County, Va. "Cursive is increasingly becoming obsolete." Michael Hairston, president of ...

As the U.S. educational system developed, new types of cursive writing emerged. One, Spencerian script, was inspired by American landscapes and became a widespread—and uniquely American—school ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Cursive writing is a skill many of us learned growing up, but it's unfortunately not part of the mandatory curriculum in Michigan. As a result, many children are missing ...

Having that dashed center line was a big help. It made it easy for young hands ... and in many cases, quite beautiful cursive writing. Most of the boys, it seemed, just did it and then moved on, ...

For example, every time you reached the end of a line ... and writing skills." In my opinion, it's a shame that more K-12 students don't learn touch typing in school. Just like learning cursive ...

In classrooms, unfortunately, it has become common for cursive writing to function as a condition ... date that I was trying to place on the top line of the paper — what my teacher called ...

Turns out it’s mostly a lost art. Printing and typing? No problem. But cursive writing has truly become the hieroglyphics of this generation. I specifically remember being a fourth grader with ...

However, when she thinks about public education, teaching her children cursive writing is not at the top ... have yet to be pushed through the finish line. David Price, president of the Kansas ...

Since the ink dripped when you lifted the quill from the paper, it made sense to connect letters and words together in one flowing line — and cursive writing was born. My mother and father were ...

They lament writing out their exam essays by hand ... to students when I sit down and write by hand on their paper and go line by line,” Morris said. “That process, which is very familiar ...

They can set colors, backgrounds, line thickness, transparency, zoom, and many more. Helping young learners master cursive writing can be both fun and engaging with the right tools. This collection of ...