Cursive instruction was once a standard part of elementary education, a perceived rite of passage. However, its prevalence began declining with the advent of typewriters and computers, a trend ...

Cursive, the ability to join letters via script in a conjoined or flowing manner, is a lost art. Even amongst those of us who were schooled during a time where this skill was mandatory there is a ...

Why do so many young people insist on printing rather than writing? It’s a question I’ve been asking my kids for years since discovering that despite learning cursive in elementary school ...

Cursive instruction was in decline long before 2010, when most US states adopted the Common Core curriculum standards, which say nothing about handwriting.

Point by point, Noon refutes these arguments in what we, at least, took to be a convincing manner, calling out "the dubious premise that cursive script supplies a graphic fingerprint" and the ...

Jan. 24, 2011 -- The handwriting may be on the wall for cursive. At least that's what some people fear as schools across the country continue to drop cursive handwriting from their curricula.

Letter writing along with cursive script is going the way of the dinosaurs if it is not extinct already. With so many alternative and quicker ways to communicate, ...

Abstract: Over the years, there has been significant progress in field of OCR for cursive script, such as italic and handwritten text. However, complex cursive script is still a major challenging ...