As a kid, you must have done lots of cursive writing at school. It is not just needed for improving the handwriting but even helps students to get the flow and speed of writing sentences. So, as an ...

Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why. The flowing ...

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 ...

Happy National Handwriting Day, everyone! Or rather, unhappy and hotly controversial handwriting day? That would honestly be more accurate. Because, for one thing, isn’t teaching handwriting somewhat ...

When it comes to the ways people communicate, the writing is on the wall — and it isn’t handwriting. Each new generation relies less on pen and paper to put down words and more on keyboards and ...

That's what I'm giving the state of Alabama for its new law requiring that cursive writing be taught in public schools. It's not a stellar idea, but it's not the worst thing to happen in our schools, ...

Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card, looked at it and said, “I can’t read cursive yet.” Then he handed it to me to read. If you have a child ...

Cursive writing is in decline, says the New York Times. Should we panic? In a much-emailed article published Wednesday, Katie Zezima chronicled the hand-wringing of school administrators over whether ...

Here’s a list of things I never learned between kindergarten and eighth grade: the modern history and geography of any country outside of North America and Europe; a foreign language; anything related ...