What’s something kids can’t do, but teachers don’t teach? If you answered “cursive,” write a flowing capital letter “A” by hand on your report card. Once a staple of classrooms and correspondence, ...

Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why. The flowing ...

Long before I became Schools Chancellor, or even a teacher, I understood the value of cursive handwriting. Like many of you, I remember learning the Palmer Method of cursive in grade school, and I ...

'Failing to follow these simple suggestions, you are likely to waste many hours, weeks, and months in useless practice.” That oft-repeated warning in Palmer Method instructional materials sounded ...

Unlike probably most people, I enjoy the act of writing by hand — but I’ve always disliked signing my name. Why is that? I think it’s because signatures are supposed to be in cursive, or else they don ...

Click here to see how Emily’s and her daughter’s handwriting improved. If you have school-age children, you may have noticed their handwriting is terrible. They may communicate incessantly via written ...

Words are an essential means of communication, yet how we put them down in writing has been continuously shaped over time by technologies, cultural and business needs, and education. Once a universal ...

Just how long have humans been using cursive writing? Scholars credit Niccolo Niccoli, a 15th Century Italian, for “inventing” our modern-day cursive, although it had been evolving long before his day ...