My sister and I recently unearthed a forgotten box of correspondence our mom received from servicemen she'd met at Red Cross ...

By today's standards these Greatest Generation guys are practically calligraphers — swirling cursive script, lines straight even on unruled paper. The first thing we noted about the letters ...

Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card, looked at it and said, "I ...

Legislation that would require cursive handwriting instruction in Pennsylvania schools was unanimously approved by the House ...

But in reality, cursive handwriting draws upon deep reading knowledge and requires the coordination of multiple cognitive and physical processes. To handwrite letters or spell words in print or ...

In cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a word are joined with connecting strokes, such as in a person’s signature. Cursive fell out of favor in U.S. schools over a decade ago.

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We have to do better. We have to do better for our kids,” she said. Strunk was also critical of the lack of cursive writing instruction for students, something she said all students should “be ...