Like many of you, I remember learning the Palmer Method of cursive in grade school, ... Understanding the value of cursive handwriting (commentary) Updated: Apr. 11, 2017, 6:27 p.m.

And even the most connected of us, kitted out with iPhones and iPads and Kindles galore, use pen and paper—okay, Post-its—a dozen times a day, […] ...

If you can read the picture accompanying this column, you are one of a diminishing number. It may very well be that your son — or your grandson — cannot.

A column on cursive handwriting and a pile of handwritten replies. Skip to Article. ... My Palmer Method is not as perfect at 79 years! Sincerely, in appreciation, for writing still matters.

Like many people over the age of 40, I still have a callused knobby excrescence on the third finger of my right hand, the place where pencils and ballpoints and fountain pens have been resting ...

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.

Specifically, cursive writing, which is a fancy word for script. Beginning this fall, Indiana public schools will no longer teach cursive writing. Keyboarding is where it’s at.

An American forefather of cursive handwriting was Platt Rogers Spencer, who developed a standardized form during the mid-19th century. This was known as the Spencerian method.

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.

Off script. Elaine Thompson. [email protected]. ... Cursive instruction in schools has substantially diminished as keyboarding has become the focus in the technologically-driven era.