“For older kids who never developed legible manuscript writing but recognize letters, cursive can feel like a fresh start,” she added. Developing automaticity. Whether students learn manuscript or ...

If you had any trouble, don’t despair. The death of cursive has not been exaggerated. And if writing all of your office memos by hand for a day feels too daunting, I have a tip: If you’re on a ...

I stopped writing in cursive about the same time I quit wearing white socks and penny loafers, which is to say, junior high school. In elementary school in the 1960s, my left-handed scrawl was ...

If you, like so many adults educated in the past few decades, do more “connected printing” than graceful cursive, and you want to give learning cursive a try, this is the book ideal.

The efficient writing style once thrived in U.S. businesses and schools, but researchers fret that today’s lack of cursive literacy may have a surprising impact on history—and ourselves.