Since the U.S. Department of Education dropped cursive writing from standard national curricula in 2011, the debate on the value of learning penmanship has raged. Some argue that the skill is ...

Slant on cursive is that it’s an endangered… Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) Click to print (Opens in new window) ...

“Cursive is about connections, not the slant. It’s not calligraphy. It’s functional,” said Suzanne Asherson, a national presenter for Handwriting Without Tears, a handwriting program for ...

But as schools go high-tech, the move may spell the end for cursive writing. The Common Core State Standards, a set of national benchmarks for American public schools, d IE 11 is not supported.

If you had to read this column in my original handwriting, you wouldn't have gotten this far. Simply put, my cursive looks like a cross between blood-splatter evidence and a Gordian knot of ...

Contest results. Last year, 3,600 of the approximate 300,000 entrants in the Zaner-Bloser National Handwriting Contest were from Arizona. The previous year, 2,610 of about 260,000 were from Arizona.

Kirk Day School in Town and County has a rich history of students being honored for handwriting.

Nowadays, I’ve noticed that my handwriting is not as neat when I have to write a message and sign a greeting card. I remember learning to write on that lined paper in elementary school and getting a ...

Although cursive handwriting is not as widely seen or as prominent as decades past, it has made a comeback in some classrooms.After Common Core standards no longer required that cursive be taught ...