After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters in ...

What happened? It is called the Common Core. We now know handwriting is a way to learn about a person. It is crucial.

Once upon a time, “keyboard” meant an expensive typewriter that weighed 40 pounds, so teaching penmanship in school seemed ...

If you cannot decipher cursive, you can’t really experience literature’s great works in their original version. Same for ...

In an age dominated by digital communication, the elegance of cursive writing remains a valuable skill that fosters ...

Or is it time to move on from this quaint relic of past times? The Editorial Board Roundtable takes up its quills and weighs ...

Typing is fast, but handwriting has hidden power. Putting pen to paper does more than just record thoughts—it builds memory, ...

A recent study from the University of Stavanger has found that around 40 percent of Gen Zers are losing their grip on handwritten communication, a skill that’s ...

The Ohio Department of Education and Workforce recently updated its five-year-old guidance for school districts that want to ...

Image courtesy of the Corita Art Center, Los Angeles ... her work was built around typography, with words and phrases in beautiful cursive scripts or blocky fonts—but Kent was an artist who ...

HORN: “Gurgles, sucks, echoes” was a phrase taken from a text I wrote. Those drawings were mostly just pictures of words. I don’t really think of them as visualizing the content of the word, ...