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 ...

Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why.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

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 ...

You may identify it as a ragged bastardization of the Palmer Method, but in a few short years, it may be no more recognizable than the Dead Sea Scrolls to a great number of people. Most schools are no ...

PARENTS are not the only ones bemoaning the way so many schools have given up teaching children to write longhand. Researchers are also aware that more than mere pride in penmanship is lost when ...

The Times asked readers for samples of their cursive and to talk about their relationship with old-fashioned, longhand writing with its loops, curls and dips. A new law will require all California ...

DANBURY, Conn. - Francesca Curatilo attended three camps this summer: wilderness, martial arts and - in the final days before the start of school - cursive. On a sunny morning, Francesca sat in a ...