Baby boomers and Gen Xers who remember laboring over cursive penmanship in grade school might feel a twinge of envy over millennials who, by and large, have escaped those wrist-cramping lessons. After ...

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Handwriting instruction is on the verge of a renaissance. Michael Sull of Gardner, Kan., is a master penman in Spencerian script; past president of the International Association of Master Penmen, ...

The goal of early-writing education should be for children to achieve ‘cognitive automaticity’ in it — the ability to make letters without conscious effort I thought politicians had enough to fight ...

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, ...