Being able to read the longhand script is a huge help because so many of the documents are written using it. “It’s not just a matter of whether you learned cursive in school, it’s how much ...

Nimah Gobir: She discovered that handwriting is an essential part of learning language. Writing by hand strengthens letter recognition and supports memory and recall—especially when taught alongside ...

While the future of the House bill appears to be written in clear, indelible ink, the script for the Senate version has yet ...

Maybe it was the fact that in the States, there’s no real rite of passage attached to learning to write in either script or cursive, except that you escaped the bad marks in the penmanship ...

But the cursive students learn now is a more modern style than the script used on the U.S. Constitution and other historical documents. Bookkeeper Platt Rogers Spencer created a fancy form of ...