As I was taking notes for this column, I thought it fitting to write them in cursive, a skill I spent many hours mastering ...

In our digitized world, where we carry keyboards on the phones in our pockets, handwriting is a dying art. QWERTY is a life skill. Cursive handwriting, increasingly, is an anachronism. Advertisement ...

Pennsylvania and New Jersey are among the latest states to require cursive handwriting to be taught in elementary schools.

Since the late 1800s, when the typewriter struck the first blow to penmanship, handwriting has become an increasingly obsolete skill, and therefore a powerful symbol of the past. It’s an idealized ...

Separating students’ knowledge from their handwriting can leave teachers feeling like they’re detectives sifting through ...

“Handwriting was initially the first means of preserving information that was previously only passed down orally,” explains Donica. Before the invention of the printing press, copying information or ...

PENNSYLVANIA - Starting next month, all public and private schools in Pennsylvania will be required to reintroduce cursive handwriting into their curriculum. The new law, which was signed by Gov. Josh ...

Cursive writing returns to Pennsylvania classrooms next month ...