"Students can be just as successful with printing," he said. "When a kid can text 60 words a minute, that means we're heading in a different direction. Cursive is becoming less and less important." ...

Of course, these and others were my excuses for favoring simplicity over style. I got lazy. Pens gave way to laptop keys while blank Word documents replaced white-lined paper. As it was for most ...

Cursive is a dying art, and state lawmaker gets nowhere with attempt to revive it Originally published February 7, 2016 at 6:42 pm Updated February 8, 2016 at 10:52 am ...

However, by omitting cursive writing, students lost out on a lot more than beautiful penmanship. By writing in cursive, a person improves their hand-eye coordination and memory. Moreover, in young ...

Since the ink dripped when you lifted the quill from the paper, it made sense to connect letters and words together in one flowing line -- and the art of cursive writing began.

Famous and not-so-famous people kept diaries. Prisoners and pen pals have recorded life accounts, all in cursive script. Hand-printing is tedious and limits the flow of thoughts and words.