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.

The Palmer Method was temporarily shelved when educators decided to teach children printing first and cursive later. “Handwriting in the United States meant cursive until 1921 when Manuscript ...

In our digitized world, where we carry keyboards on the phones in our pockets, handwriting is a dying art. QWERTY is a life skill. Cursive handwriting, increasingly, is an anachronism ...

The Times asked readers for samples of their cursive and to talk about their relationship with old-fashioned, longhand writing with its loops, curls and dips. A new law will require all California ...

Cursive writing is still taught in some schools within the U.S., although, it's not nationally mandated or emphasized. In ...

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 ...

Students' reading and writing suffer when they don't learn script. Why Students Need to Know Cursive Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card ...