The efficient writing style once thrived in U.S. businesses and schools, but researchers fret that today’s lack of cursive literacy may have a surprising impact on history—and ourselves.
centuries, mashed some letters together. Next came “Round Hand,” an elaborate style of calligraphy used primarily in official documents in France and England. As immigration to the British colonies and eventually the United States began in the 18century, immigrants brought their preferred cursive styles, or “hands,” with them. One of these, Copperplate, grew out of Round Hand and became a favorite of private writing masters who tutored many elite students.
Soon, Spencerian handwriting was all the rage, and was widely taught in American schools and used in U.S. business correspondence. The rise of industry and technology helped cursive spread, says, a curator for the history of education collections at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
“Pupils who follow absolutely the Palmer Method plan never fail to become good penmen,” Palmer declared in a 1901. Emphasizing “absolute mechanical mastery,” the Palmer Method specified everything from the proper clothing to the proper hand with which to write , warning students and teachers alike that without “absolute control” and a grasp of each component motion of cursive, they would fail.
. Adopted in 2009, the initiative brought together 48 states, two territories, and the District of Columbia to devise a set of accepted curriculum standards for K-12 education—standards that do not require most American public-school students to learn cursive., one of the national curriculum standard’s lead writers for English and language arts, Sue Pimentel explained that technology was at the forefront of curriculum experts’ minds as they set the national educational agenda.
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