Rachel Jeantel, the 19-year-old witness who took the stand in the recent case against George Zimmerman for the death of Trayvon Martin, stunned many when she admitted she couldn't read cursive. But ...

Pennsylvania has enacted a new law mandating cursive handwriting instruction in its schools. Proponents argue this move, supported by cognitive studies, enhances memory, language, and critical ...

University of Leeds provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. Schools in Finland, it has been reported, are phasing out the teaching of handwriting skills, a claim that has led to ...

Cursive loyalists lament the loss of cursive teaching in schools. WSJ's Andy Jordan reports from San Francisco. RALEIGH, N.C.—Across North Carolina and in dozens of other states, teachers are ...

The kiddos may squirm and pout but in many school systems, children from kindergarten through grade six will be required to learn script writing and practice penmanship. As a journalism/ art professor ...

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, ...

Cursive handwriting — the flowing, graceful script that was the hallmark of the written word for millennia, until the advent of the printing press — is clearly threatened now around the globe. With ...

When I got my pen licence in grade four, I was bursting with pride. I was only the second in my class to visit the sacred stationery cupboard, where with great ceremony, Miss Perry handed me an ...

Cursive writing lessons will be back in Pennsylvania classrooms after state lawmakers passed legislation requiring its ...

Abstract: The main characteristics of cursive script handwriting are reviewed, and a basic coding scheme is described. Two types of neural networks are described: (i) a self-organizing network, ...