A nationwide study of more than 500 Australian primary school students in Year 2 has revealed how beginner writers' attitude and motivation toward writing is related to the quality of their writing ...

Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why.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

PHOENIX - In a time when children are communicating more often on the computer using a keyboard or the keypad of a cell phone, some teachers in the Phoenix area are going back to basics. They're ...

In a world where digital devices are everywhere, it’s easy to wonder if handwriting still matters. We’ve all heard the argument that keyboards and screens have made this foundational skill obsolete.

This column has often mentioned the Dakota Business College in Fargo, its penmanship classes and the Watkins family that operated the school. Here’s a note from Lee Watkins, Fargo. His grandfather, F.

Pennsylvania schools are required to teach cursive handwriting under a new law.

Q: My 12-year-old daughter cannot read a handwritten note unless it is printed. She struggles with all of the myriad notes of day-to-day living that are not done on the computer or through ...

Tom Purcell’s column “Time to embrace cursive again” (Feb. 4, TribLIVE) poses an important question. Along with strong indications of value to be had, he points out that cursive instruction is being ...

In a world gone so fully digital that some elementary schools have made the decision to stop teaching penmanship, it is a relief to read an article about the choice of pens for handwritten notes ("Don ...