This study compared cursive handwriting samples from 112 first graders who had received instruction using the new alphabet and 134 first-grade students who were instructed using traditional manuscript ...

The dying art of cursive writing is the focus of a new exhibition at the New Brunswick Museum.

Learning to write in cursive may no longer be popular in American schools, but education experts stress that the craft can be beneficial to students in more ways than one.

Experiment. Find a model alphabet Before you can write cursive letters, you have to know what they look like. Search for “letter guides” that show the shapes and the order of strokes.

After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters ...

California is now mandating cursive instruction for public school students, but what's the point of pushing a pen in a digital world?

Also written in both cursive hieratic Egyptian and hieroglyphs, the obverse side appears to record the first seven, or potentially more, letters of the halaḥam sequence, says Schneider.

Cursive writing is a style of handwriting where letters are joined together in a flowing manner and is often characterised by loops and curves.

I can’t escape the conviction that writing it and knowing how to read it represent a universal value. This is sheer nonsense, of course.

“Although there are 26 letters in the alphabet, there are only four basic shapes that make up the structure of every lowercase cursive letter.

Have you ever tried to read your physician’s prescriptions? Children increasingly print their writing because they don’t know cursive or theirs is simply unreadable. I have a middle-school ...