Me and my fellow Xennial zeigeistians learned a specific printing method called D’Nealian, which was designed to ease the transition from printing to cursive with its curly tails on every letter.

Me and my fellow Xennial zeigeistians learned a specific printing method called D’Nealian, which was designed to ease the transition from printing to cursive with its curly tails on every letter.

Training the left hand to contort and make the flourishes in cursive left me with headaches (and a D in penmanship in second grade). I eventually learned to write cursive with a straight left hand ...

It was the most commonly taught method for decades. The simpler D’Nealian script was introduced in the 1970s. Today, the cursive style used by “Handwriting Without Tears” — a popular ...

Training the left hand to contort and make the flourishes in cursive left me with headaches (and a D in penmanship in second grade). I eventually learned to write cursive with a straight left hand ...

There are bills to further restrict kids' cell phone use in schools and to require cursive instruction for younger students. Another piece of legislation would nix an upcoming mandate for some schools ...