SAN MATEO, Calif. -- Monique McGowan sharpens a No. 2 pencil, straightens her posture and sharply slants her notebook to prepare for her weekly lesson in cursive. She and other third graders at ...

The perennial hot topic of cursive writing has raised its smooth connected head once again, as TechRepublic asks whether technology should replace cursive writing instruction. Cursive writing is ...

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, some educators believed that neat handwriting reflected discipline, diligence and moral character. Students who followed prescribed patterns ...

Learning to read and write cursive was once a rite of passage for practically every American schoolchild. Until the early 20th century, children in the U.S. were generally taught to write in cursive ...

The Times asked readers for samples of their cursive and to talk about their relationship with old-fashioned, longhand writing with its loops, curls and dips. A new law will require all California ...

LOS ANGELES – 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 ...

Sophomore Andrew Forbes of Nashville, Tennessee, used cursive everyday in elementary school, from third grade through eighth grade. He was required to write out all his papers, worksheets, and notes ...

Handwriting has its place: electronic systems can crash at any instant, and may stay down for months. Further, students who learn literacy through handwriting, rather than through key-pressing, ...

Kate Gladstone is the founder of Handwriting Repair/Handwriting That Works and the director of the World Handwriting Contest. April 30, 2013 Handwriting matters, but not cursive. The fastest, clearest ...