“It looks really fancy,” said student Noelle Jean, age 8. “It’s important to have neat handwriting.” The third-grader, already a fiction writer, said she thought cursive handwriting ...

The Sad Decline of Cursive ... beautiful f’s that in my mind resembled fairy tale princesses wearing fancy hats while ... We were strictly forbidden to use block letters on our ...

Cursive – the pinnacle of quick and elegant penmanship, or just fancy, antiquated squiggles? However you choose to describe it, students in Louisiana’s public and charter schools will get ...

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.

A-hed; Cursive Is Coming Back, Now That Kids Can’t Read Grandma’s Letters More than a decade after many wrote off the handwriting style, states are bringing it back ...

The article notes that a study on cursive found that essays written in this form of handwriting received slightly higher scores. Suzanne Asherson of the group Handwriting Without Tears attributes ...

In Grades 1 & 2, our printing was block letters, not the curved letters in the first image. Somewhere about grade 3 I learned to write cursive. The letters looked a lot like those in the second ...

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 ...

Cursive makes a comeback — by law — in California public schools | Dec. 3 The article regarding cursive sadly quotes an education professor who derides including cursive in school curricula.

We learn things best as children, and they stay with us for a lifetime. Multiplication tables. How to tie shoes. Tell time. These are basic skills, and they’re locked in. I’m told you never ...