Cursive – the pinnacle of quick and elegant penmanship, or just fancy, antiquated squiggles? However you choose to describe it, students in Louisiana’s public and charter schools will get bigger doses ...

Generations of school kids learned penmanship; whether future generations will learn to write their ABC's by hand at ALL, however, is very much in doubt. Our Cover Story is reported now by Tracy Smith ...

Monique McGowan sharpens a No. 2 pencil, straightens her posture and sharply slants her notebook to prepare for her weekly lesson in cursive. She and other third graders at Horrall Elementary School ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. Legislators will be back in the state capital for their annual session on May 16, but ...

Many schools have eliminated cursive in elementary schools with the rise of computers But several states say cursive is still valuable for students Proponents says cursive helps coordination and motor ...

If it were up to the editorial team at Bloomberg, cursive, the loopy, fancy handwriting that no one actually uses anymore, would be taken down to the riverbed, shot, and killed with fire. For some ...

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Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, but the calligraphy belongs to Timothy Matlack, a beer-bottler from Pennsylvania. Source: Public Domain Image Sometimes modest subjects resound ...

Jack Parisian graduated from Mahnomen (Minn.) High School in 1952 and began receiving letters from the Dakota Business College, Fargo, encouraging him to enroll there. Jack saved the envelope of one ...