The efficient writing style once thrived in U.S. businesses and schools, but researchers fret that today’s lack of cursive literacy may have a surprising impact on history—and ourselves.

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 ...

To write like this, dig up some old Palmer worksheets, or, for the more adventurous writer, ... More: Cursive Handwriting. Read More. Crossword. The Crossword: Tuesday, May 27, 2025 ...

This Palmer Method cursive desk card from the 1980s reveals that the Palmer script had hardly changed in almost 100 years after a Cedar Rapids businessman, Austin N. Palmer, created and ...

Third-grade teacher Margaret Sardella said her teenage daughter doesn't understand why she teaches handwriting to her pupils. Her daughter doesn't write in cursive. Instead, she uses a computer to ...

By Brian Palmer. April 29, 2011 2:44 PM. Cursive is nearly as old as writing itself. ... In fact, cursive writing is a bit like sex: Youngsters are going to do it whether we like it or not.

There’s an effort by a state representative to bring back training for cursive writing in Michigan schools.According to our ...

A column on cursive handwriting and a pile of handwritten replies. Skip to Article. ... I went to a Catholic school in Watertown and we actually had writing classes in the Palmer Method.

Derric Palmer, from the Barka Elementary School in Derry, is one of five boys his age across the country to win the national Cursive Is Cool Contest, coordinated by the American Handwriting ...

SAN MATEO, Calif — Monique McGowan sharpens a No. 2 pencil, straightens her posture and sharply slants her notebook to prepare for her weekly lesson in cursive. She and other third-graders at ...

Georgia classrooms reintroduce cursive writing for students from third to fifth grade, making it part of assessed coursework.

MCLEAN, VIRGINIA — As recently as a half-century ago, young American students would spend many lessons writing curved loops and diagonal lines, as they learned how to write in cursive.