which was designed to ease the transition from printing to cursive with its curly tails on every letter. We practiced our D’Nealian (So fancy! So grown-up!) on something called Zaner-Bloser ...

while elegant flourishes of cursive sashay across the page. Free-spirited scribbled letters trip over each other, and distinctive dashes help direct traffic. Some crossed t’s and dotted i’s stand ...

Cursive handwriting has long been cherished as a hallmark of eloquence and sophistication. For generations, children were taught to flourish their letters in a continuous, flowing style that was ...