Cursive – the pinnacle of quick and elegant penmanship, or just fancy, antiquated squiggles? However you choose to describe it, students in Louisiana’s public and charter schools will get ...

“I think it’s more fancy,” he said. “Like, if you were writing a book and you wanted to use cursive, it would look more fancy.” Cursive, said Martin, offers creativity and an opportunity for ...

In the early 1900s, Austin Norman Palmer became the cursive king, promoting his Palmer method as a quicker, less fancy and more readable alternative to Spencerian. By the 1920s, the Palmer method ...