In many schools today, the traditional pen-to-paper notetaking has been replaced with tablets and personal laptops. At the front of most classrooms, where giant blackboards were once the focal point ...

This basic life skill was phased out in 2010 with the introduction of the controversial Common Core curriculum — and our ...

New Jersey schools will now teach cursive writing to grades three through five, sparking debate over its relevance in a ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- If cursive writing is a lost art, Debbie Younger may be the modern-day “Indiana Jones" of penmanship. The Fountain grandmother is on a new crusade to bring back ...

Jimmy Bryant is the director of archives and special collections at the University of Central Arkansas. April 30, 2013 In today’s society, people of all ages use e-mail and various forms of ...

Jan. 23 is National Handwriting Day, invented by the Writing Instrument Manufacturers Association in 1977 and pegged to John Hancock’s birthday. On this day, Big Pen encourages you to “use a pen or a ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Traditional handwriting is making a comeback in schools in one state after a new bill was just signed into legislation. On Friday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that will ...

For centuries, the educated, wealthy and refined could be distinguished by their ability to put quill to parchment, vellum or paper and create beautiful, flowing letters. The delicately formed cursive ...

Commentary: We wrote book reports. Essays. Love notes. Cursive was our only mode of written communication in school once we ...