Like many, I lost the ability to write fluid cursive, and my kids don’t care to learn it either. What does the loss of this ...

NEW ORLEANS, LA (WVUE) - When it comes to writing, digital devices make it easy and fast. They even serve as the spelling police, and the convenience causes more and more people to nearly write off ...

PARENTS are not the only ones bemoaning the way so many schools have given up teaching children to write longhand. Researchers are also aware that more than mere pride in penmanship is lost when ...

Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. As a new school year begins, many children will be returning to classrooms filled with brand new computers, tablets and other tools ...

Turns out the skill your teachers drilled into you never stopped mattering.

When Jack Lew was nominated to be Treasury secretary in 2013, President Barack Obama joked that as a condition of the appointment, Lew would have to learn to sign his name more legibly. The ...

Writing in cursive might be a lost art in the next few decades. While it was a school staple in elementary grades, it fell out of favor in the last few years. Currently, only 23 states require that ...

Florida's new cursive requirement makes handwriting mandatory for grades 3-5, with proficiency required before middle school.

While pen and paper may seem poised on the edge of obscurity, handwriting offers a bevy of brain-boosting perks that should not be lost to technology. Melissa Breyer was Treehugger’s senior editorial ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. If pen retailers and state legislators are to be believed, cursive handwriting is ...