Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails ... stiff English Copperplate script, also known as round hand, which was popular at the time," the museum reported. By the late 1800s, publisher ...

As the U.S. educational system developed, new types of cursive writing emerged. One, Spencerian script, was inspired by American landscapes and became a widespread—and uniquely American—school ...

That’s because cursive writing is no longer required ... but said he likes how his hand rests on the paper as he writes out letters and words in script. Besides that, he said, “Writing a ...

which didn’t include the out-of-fashion script. But the American Handwriting Analysis Foundation said several states have been adding it back, with more than 26 requiring some cursive instruction.

Students' reading and writing suffer when they don't learn script. Why Students Need to Know Cursive Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card ...

Where cursive came from ... and then the D’Nealian script starting in the 1970s. The decline of handwriting began in the 1980s as computers and their associated keyboards became commonplace ...

It’s an uphill – but by no means impossible – battle to become comfortable with reading and writing the conjoined script. And it opens up access to a wealth of older documents. Cursive is ...