She can sign her name in cursive, but outside of us making her write thank-you notes and address envelopes, she’s not used it consistently either. And when I ask her to, it’s a chore. “Ugh. Mom.

While cursive has been relegated to nearly extinct tasks like writing thank-you cards and signing checks, rumors of its death may be exaggerated. The Common Core standards seemed to spell the end ...

Why Cursive Mattered . Practicing the skill may have been laborious, but the art of penmanship is invaluable. By Anne Quito and Quartz. Albert Gea / Reuters. May 27, 2015. Share. Save.

NEW YORK - Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools across the country after a generation of students who know only keyboarding, texting and printing out their words longhand. Alabama ...

Re “What’s the Point of Teaching Cursive?,” by John McWhorter (Opinion, nytimes.com, Dec. 13): The idea that most cursive documents will be “transliterated into print” is fine until you ...

Third, those who can’t write cursive also can’t read it. Think about the letters and documents deceased family members wrote, the original copies of the Constitution and historical letters.

California mandates cursive handwriting instruction in elementary schools More than a decade after it was phased out in most schools, elementary school students in California will begin learning ...

Lawmakers in state after state – particularly in the South – are carving out space in teachers’ classroom time to keep the graceful loops of cursive writing alive for the next generation.

Unlike the mostly carved hieroglyphs, cursive scripts were used for day-to-day writing purposes in ancient Egypt. They were written using rush stems and black or red ink on materials such as ...

A Language More Private Than Pig Latin (or: Cursive Is Subversive) Believe it or not, each squiggle represents an entire word. Image via Pinterest. One could certainly argue that it’s 2022 ...

Hieroglyphs, British Museum, ... The stone dates from 196 BCE, and is inscribed with three versions of the same text in Greek, demotic script (a form of cursive hieroglyphic writing), ...