“I think it’s more fancy,” he said. “Like, if you were writing a book and you wanted to use cursive, it would look more fancy.” Cursive, said Martin, offers creativity and an opportunity for ...

SOMERSET — From educational requirement to after-school activity, cursive writing is making a comeback – at least in one classroom at Somerset Public Library. “Up to the attic, through the ...

Teaching of cursive writing returns after falling to the wayside amid revised learning standards and emphasis on keyboarding. Backers say it promotes learning.

Jan. 23 is National Handwriting Day, invented by the Writing Instrument Manufacturers Association in 1977 and pegged to John Hancock’s birthday. On this day, Big Pen encourages you to “use a ...

But she’s ready to follow the curvy ups and downs of a new California law that requires the teaching of cursive writing, which has been cast aside as obsolete in the digital age.

She introduces her second-graders to cursive lower-case letters near the end of the school year, after they have learned to print neatly. "My feeling is, cursive is kind of a lost art," Graverson ...