The "Madrid Petrarch" of 1508 with Arrighi's chancery cursive script and Bartolomeo della Valle's coat of arms in the bottom margin. Image courtesy of the Biblioteca Nacional de España. As he ...

White said both cursive and manuscript—writing unconnected letters—have advantages. “There’s no research that says manuscript or cursive is best for everyone at all times,” she said. Sponsored One of ...

As it stands, just 24 states require that cursive is taught in the classroom. But cursive handwriting is making a comeback of ...

Being able to read the longhand script is a huge help because so many of the documents are written using it. “It’s not just a matter of whether you learned cursive in school, it’s how much ...

Maybe it was the fact that in the States, there’s no real rite of passage attached to learning to write in either script or cursive, except that you escaped the bad marks in the penmanship ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The swirling lines from Linden Bateman’s pen have been conscripted into a national fight to keep cursive writing in American classrooms. Cursive. Penmanship. Handwriting.