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 ...

REXBURG, Idaho (AP) — Cursive writing among students is becoming increasingly rare as new technologies take over and schools reduce how long they expect cursive fluency, eastern Idaho educators say.

Learning to write! For all of you reading this, it's probably been a long time since you bent over a double-line notebook and diligently tried to form letters in the given space, with the right size ...

Should schools teach cursive handwriting? The question is an impressively polarizing one in the K-12 education world. One of the most widely cited criticisms of the Common Core State Standards is that ...

Let’s not maroon our children in a mythical Golden Age. We left behind quill pens Since the late 1800s, when the typewriter struck the first blow to penmanship, handwriting has become an increasingly ...