Data analysis showed that cursive handwriting primed the brain for learning by synchronizing brain waves in the theta rhythm range (4-7 Hz) and stimulating more electrical activity in the brain's ...

Cursive script for the Roman alphabet can vary from country to country and can reveal much about where and how you were taught, writes Adrienne Bernhard. Cursive eulogies are everywhere these days ...

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 ...

Cursive Handwriting Will No Longer Be Taught in Schools Because It's a Big, Old Waste of Time Seven states are fighting to continue teaching penmanship in schools By John Boone Nov 15, 2013 10:52 AM ...

Zaner-Bloser took over with its two distinct alphabets for print and cursive, but the wide differences between the two in the letterforms led to the development of D’Nealian in 1978.

The delicately formed cursive letters of the America’s Declaration of Independence helped form a nation. But that sense of elegance is seldom seen in daily handwriting.

Unlike Palmer-style cursive, in which every letter is joined to another in a series of endless curves and loops, italic joins only some. That makes it a far more natural way of writing.

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 ...

But for Lauren Hand, an eighth-grader at St. Pius V School in Melville, cursive is a craft of precision, patience and practice. And one in which the 14-year-old is without peer for her grade.