THE CAP ON the upper-case J is back. That’s a good thing. Opinion about the cursive capital Q is mixed, but no one likes the simplified upper-case M. It’s Thursday noon at the National Catholic ...

“What does a cursive Q look like?” I asked my wife after dinner one recent night. We were helping our 5-year-old daughter form uppercase letters in manuscript when it occurred to me that I did not ...

In all my years of school, there was only one time I cried in class. It was the first week of first grade—Mrs. Scougie's room—and we were learning cursive. Q. I hated the letter. But it wasn't that I ...

In our home, we have a framed letter written by a Civil War soldier to his mother. That letter has been passed down for generations in my mother-in-law's family. In it, the soldier talks about the ...

A majority of Kansas school districts that responded to a survey about cursive writing said they still teach it and consider it an important skill, a state official told the Kansas Board of Education ...

Business cards sticking to the design to remember names and faces are effective, but it is quite difficult to design business cards that are easy to understand and impact. So, even if you do not ...

Some politicians choose to focus on poverty or drop-out rates or foster care or government spending. But in Idaho, Rep. Linden Bateman is on a different sort of crusade: protecting cursive. According ...

"It's much more likely that keyboarding will help students succeed in careers and in school than it is that cursive will," said Morgan Polikoff, assistant professor of K-12 policy and leadership at ...

When I was a kid in the late 1920s, elementary school teachers taught us the capital cursive letter Q as a sort of hieroglyphic, something like the number 2 with pretentious and goofy curls exploding ...

Ace Metro Times freelancer Nate Cavalieri checks in with this Cursive Q & A, just in time for the indie rock combo's gig at the Majestic. Take it away, Nick: The result, Happy Hollow, is a collection ...

Here’s Liz Atwood with this week’s Tween Tuesday: I was fascinated to read Liz Bowie’s story this week describing how Maryland schools may soon drop the teaching of cursive handwriting. The lessons ...