Platt Rogers Spencer, a teacher from East Fishkill, New York, is credited with developing a teachable system of cursive writing in the 1840s, according to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of ...

If you answered “cursive,” write a flowing capital letter ... The script was the brainchild of Platt Rogers Spencer, a writing-obsessed New Yorker and writing master who used the types ...

But the cursive students learn now is a more modern style than the script used on the U.S. Constitution and other historical documents. Bookkeeper Platt Rogers Spencer created a fancy form of ...

He opened the card, looked at it and said, “I can’t read cursive yet.” Then he handed it to me to read. If you have a child in the Philadelphia School District, chances are they have not been taught ...

In the 1860s, schools across the United States were teaching their pupils the Spencerian style, a decorative writing form developed in the mid-1800s by Platt Rogers Spencer. The handwriting is ...

Rogers said she filed the bill in response to ... Both chambers passed the bill unanimously earlier this month. Bringing cursive writing back to Hoosier schools? Meanwhile, a bill that seeks ...

I suspect that complaints these days that students are not learning cursive will look similar in a hundred years. It seems as if students are learning cursive ever less. The generation of college ...

The Times asked readers for samples of their cursive and to talk about their relationship with old-fashioned, longhand writing with its loops, curls and dips. A new law will require all California ...

A proposal to bring cursive writing back into South Carolina public schools is one step closer to becoming law after passing out of committee Tuesday. Supporters celebrated as the bill ...

But, he continued, those weren’t very helpful to him, because of course he couldn’t read cursive. Had I heard him correctly? Who else can’t read cursive? I asked the class. The answer ...

If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority ...