Since the late 1800s, when the typewriter struck the first blow to ... even mandating, some form of cursive instruction in the schools. During times of cultural upheaval, when the present looks ...

Eighty years later, people are saying that it will soon be supplanted by the typewriter's souped-up digital ... Some of my students write in cursive. Others use some form of print.

Remember the days when you couldn't wait to get into second or third grade so you could write in cursive? Remember practicing the loops and swirls to make the capital L or the S? The Indiana ...

Palmer developed his simpler form of script around the same time as the invention of the typewriter as a response to what he perceived as the need for “an efficient handwriting style adapted to ...

His technique is so good he was named a state and national champion of a dying art: cursive writing, a skill that once seemed destined to go the way of the typewriter. The boy, Edbert Aquino ...

cursive’s dominance has been in jeopardy ever since. First it was threatened by printed handwriting, and then it fell further from favor as typewriters, personal computers, laptops and tablets ...

Learning cursive used to be standard in classrooms across the United States, with penmanship graded. Once typewriters became common and later computers, it started to disappear. Common Core ...