Signed and secured: Why a new Florida law is bringing cursive back to classrooms

Florida students will be required to demonstrate proficiency in cursive writing under a new state law taking effect this week ...
Wired

A Guide to the Beautiful, Elaborate 'Jungle' of Script Typefaces

We live in a world of print typefaces. If you’re an iPhone user, you’re probably staring at San Francisco all day. If you use Android, it’s Roboto. Google serves up search results in Arial. The New ...
Labroots

Is Cursive Writing Good for the Brain?

Writing in cursive might be a lost art in the next few decades. While it was a school staple in elementary grades, it fell out of favor in the last few years. Currently, only 23 states require that ...

Korea's Hangul is the world's only alphabet where every consonant is shaped like the mouth that pronounces it, and the only major writing system with a known inventor

Most writing systems evolved gradually over centuries, making it impossible to identify who invented their letters. Nobody ...
Forbes

Is Cursive A Curse?

My young grandson is a masterful reader and enjoys books well beyond his grade level. The only time he’s stumped, according to our daughter, is in reading cursive writing. And he is not alone. While I ...