For the tech-savvy youth of today, reading and writing cursive is a skill viewed as almost entirely obsolete. Save for handwritten name cards adorning a wedding reception table, most don’t see the ...

Colleen Endrizzi fondly recalls when she first experienced the “lost language” as a homeschooled kindergartener. She learned it side by side with manuscript writing, a style in which letters are ...

Fifth-grade students at Edward L. Whigham Elementary School write their names on certificates on Nov. 14, 2024, in Cutler Bay. Sophia Bolivar sophiabolivar@outlook.com Over the weekend, I visited the ...

Many people of a certain age remember practicing loops and waves, moving our small hands clutching pencils across pages with light blue dotted and solid lines. But in many schools, that elementary ...

International Handwriting Week started Jan. 17, culminating on Jan. 23, the birthday of John Hancock. Hancock signed his name boldly on the Declaration of Independence. Sadly, many of our children ...

Learning to read and write cursive was once a rite of passage for practically every American schoolchild. Until the early 20th century, children in the U.S. were generally taught to write in cursive ...

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The florid script used to pen the personal correspondences of generations of literate Americans - including the Declaration of Independence - is slowly leaving American classrooms. Last year Wisconsin ...