Daryln Brewer Hoffstot: Cursive is making a comeback, as it should

She said I have pristine penmanship,” Sybil Van Antwerp wrote to one of her correspondents in Virginia Evans’ bestselling ...
Time

Quiz: See If You Remember How to Write in Cursive

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Wall Street Journal

Cursive Is Coming Back, Now That Kids Can’t Read Grandma’s Letters

COMPTON, Calif.—In a classroom at Anderson Elementary on a recent Thursday, third-graders lined up to have their pencils sharpened to a crisp point before beginning a cursive lesson. The students put ...
The Conversation

Teaching cursive handwriting to young children? Here’s how they learn, and resources for instruction

Good handwriting is not an end in itself. Rather, it is a means to literacy that fundamentally transforms the human experience. Developing control over the shape of the 26 letters of the alphabet ...
The Washington Post

Cursive handwriting is disappearing from public schools

The curlicue letters of cursive handwriting, once considered a mainstay of American elementary education, have been slowly disappearing from classrooms for years. Now, with most states adopting new ...
NJ.com

Cursive slowly scribbled out of N.J. curriculums as computer skills gain value in schools

The bulletin board at the front of Melissa Balzano's classroom in West Orange is decorated with hand-written lists her students wrote in September, expressing their "Hopes and Dreams for Third Grade." ...