COLUMBUS, Ohio The swirling lines from Linden Bateman's pen have been conscripted into a national fight to keep cursive writing in American classrooms. Cursive. Penmanship. Handwriting. In years ...

In the early 1900s, Austin Norman Palmer became the cursive king, promoting his Palmer method as a quicker, ... D’Nealian cursive involves the connection of printed letters with “tails.” ...

Across the country, cursive writing had been substantially abandoned for more than a decade in favor of teaching elementary school students to type after they learned to print letters. This anti ...

Cursive writing is still taught in some schools within the U.S., although, it's not nationally mandated or emphasized. In ...

WASHINGTON — Reading cursive writing is a skill that could be fading away over time. But if you know how to read cursive, the National Archives could use your help. The U.S. National Archives ...

“Part of being an American is being able to read cursive writing,” Ms. Roach told King 5 News. Lawmakers have also invoked the Declaration of Independence, which was marked by John Hancock’s ...

Cedarwood School teacher Niki Gazley helps one of her students, Regan King, practice writing in cursive. Across the country, there's a new push to bring back an old skill. Last year, the Louisiana ...