Instead, the now author and backyard chicken expert developed her own style, an interesting mix of print/cursive handwriting, that she calls “Chicken Scratch.” ...

College students today rarely write by hand, and when they do, nearly all print rather than write in cursive.

From the beautiful ornate script we associate with days gone by to the rise of texting—handwriting has come a long way in the past century.

And a survey of handwriting teachers by Zaner-Bloser, a cursive textbook publisher, found that only 37 percent of them write exclusively in script. Another 8 percent write only in print, while ...

The real fear among those who study kids and handwriting is not that our schools will stop teaching cursive; it's that students aren't writing enough.

When third grade students make the transition from printing to cursive writing, they must learn 26 new lowercase and capital letter shapes. This is a time-consuming and often traumatic transition.

Handwriting matters, but not cursive. The fastest, clearest handwriters join only some letters: making the easiest joins, skipping others, using print-like forms of letters whose cursive and ...

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.

Children today learn basic printing in first and second grade, then get cursory instruction in cursive in the third grade—my daughter was given a cursive workbook and told to figure it out herself.

Should schools teach cursive handwriting? The question is a polarizing one in the K-12 education world.