I have always been proud of my handwriting, a skill I was taught in grade school by the Sisters of St. Joseph. Their forte was teaching us the Palmer Penmanship Method, drilling into us the ...

The Palmer method was meant to simplify Spencerian script, ... so you get good at reading all kinds of handwriting, cursive or otherwise. (It’s never too late to learn.) ...

The Palmer method script has hardly changed since it was first introduced—it’s the same form of cursive used today. 5 / 12. ... The cursive form was still the Palmer Method.

Two young girls practice their cursive handwriting on a small blackboard, circa 1935. With the help of drills, examinations, and even penmanship competitions, the Palmer Method became the dominant ...

By the late 1800s, publisher and educator Austin Norman Palmer from Fort Jackson, N.Y., developed a new cursive style that was dubbed "The Palmer Method," according to the NMAH.

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In California, a new law will require all students there to learn cursive handwriting — a skill that had been mandatory for generations, but started to fall by the wayside in the digital age.

Teaching cursive is once again the law for kids in California — news that adults greet with celebration, nostalgia, scorn, indifference and head-scratching.

A variety of educators and politicians across the country are pushing back against the death of cursive, resurrecting the rite of passage. Here's why. Ask anyone who completed third grade in the ...