The handwriting's on the wall
I've always been fascinated by the different handwriting systems that have been used to teach writing, like Spencer, Palmer, D'Nealian, and so forth, probably because I've always had such crappy handwriting.
(The reason for the crappy handwriting is a long story involving a visit to my elementary school counselor, who sent me to a neurologist, who said "yep, he's just wired differently", as if that was any suprise at all to my parents.)
So I was delighted to find this site, a comparison of several of the handwriting systems that are available today. I think they're connected with the Zaner Bloser method, since the url for this site is zanerbloser.com, vs. zaner-bloser.com (with hyphen) for the actual system's URL. Even if it is biased, it's interesting to see all the systems together.
The only one missing is Spencerian script. There's apparently a Spencerian page at http://www.spencerian.com, but there's nothing there. The link to their PDF catalog is still live, though, and you can see samples of Spencerian there.
Update: Following a link off of my original site brought me to Educational Fontware, which sells fonts of each of these styles for use in creating course materials. You can see more samples there, of course, but my mind reels at the possibility of using these fonts in printed materials.