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 ...

Bookkeeper Platt Rogers Spencer created a fancy form of cursive with whorls and flourishes that was widely taught in schools starting in 1850, according to the National Museum of American History.

But when you write in cursive you write those letters very curvy. - Ooh - Exactly. So when we write in cursive, you connect each letter to the letter that's in front of it and behind it.

To the editor: Gustavo Arellano’s column on his traumatic experience learning cursive in the second grade brought back memories. More than 40 years ago, my son’s fourth-grade teacher ...

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 ...

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.

Not everybody agrees, of course. In Missouri, state Rep. Gretchen Bangert, a Florissant Democrat, is trying once again to pass a law that would make cursive instruction mandatory in public schools.

About 83,000 mail-in ballots were not counted in California because of signature match problems. A reader says that makes the case for cursive instruction.

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 ...

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 ...