Cursive writing, once a staple of elementary education, is vanishing from classrooms across the United States. A Michigan ...

"The Importance of Cursive Handwriting Over Typewriting for Learning in the Classroom: A High-Density EEG Study of 12-Year-Old Children and Young Adults." Frontiers in Psychology (First published ...

The curlicue letters of cursive handwriting, once considered a mainstay of American elementary education, have been slowly disappearing from classrooms for years. Now, with most states adopting ...

Cursive handwriting – when is the last time you used it to write something other than your signature? With so much of our lives online now, the occasions to get out the pen and paper are getting ...

I am writing in response to your Sept. 24 article on cursive handwriting. About 25 years ago, I studied graphoanalysis, which is the study of handwriting to determine the personality and character ...

The highest speed and highest legibility in handwriting are attained by those who join only some letters, not all. Reading cursive matters but is much easier and quicker to master than writing the ...

Rouan explained the potential difference between printing and cursive, suggesting that “when you’re printing something, you draw the letter and then you stop and then you draw the next letter.

Letter: Teach cursive writing. Rochester. The Rochester City School District no longer teaches cursive handwriting to elementary school students.

Only 37 percent wrote in cursive; another 8 percent printed. The majority - 55 percent - wrote a hybrid: some elements resembling print-writing, others resembling cursive.

Yet the decline in cursive seems inevitable. Writing is, after all, a technology, ... Almost all said they did so on laptops and phones or sometimes on paper in block letters.

She opened it and realized it was a handwritten letter in cursive. Her first response was, “Uh oh.” She had immediate doubts if she could read cursive years after she learned it in elementary school.