The curlicue letters of cursive handwriting, once considered a mainstay of American elementary education, have been slowly disappearing from classrooms for years. Now, with most states adopting ...

Lowercase is about more than refusing to hit the shift key. Of course, tech has something to do with it. Email got us used to lowercase handles. In chatrooms, ALL CAPS was the equivalent of shouting.

The wooden cases where letters were stored for printing had different compartments by type. Lowercase and uppercase letters ...

The wooden cases where letters were stored for printing had different compartments by type. Lowercase and uppercase letters were stored in separate type cases, hence the names. Usually the letters ...

We can’t say precisely how many people—or how many Gen Zers—stick to lowercase letters. But the trend of ditching capitals has been picking up steam, especially among younger people.

The neat cursive writing of students is a point of pride at Woodland Consolidated School in Aroostook County. The school, with fewer than 200 students, is home to multiple winners of the Zaner ...

Letter writer is not surprised by the finger-pointing over Children Rising Center — but really wants to know why housing authority needs a rooftop terrace and golf simulator.

The origin of the terms uppercase and lowercase might seem pretty self-explanatory. Upper and lower must be references to the height of the letters, and the use of case is presumably an offshoot ...

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Well, now for another mind-melter ― there’s a very good reason why we call uppercase and lowercase letters what we do, and it’s because of the original printing presses.

Blake Boggs, 8, finishes a cursive writing worksheet Feb. 8 at Hallsville Intermediate School. After completing the worksheet, students could write their own sentences on the back of the paper.

But she’s ready to follow the curvy ups and downs of a new California law that requires the teaching of cursive writing, which has been cast aside as obsolete in the digital age.