“I like how my pencil feels on the paper when I write it,” Evi said from her classroom at Mary Queen of Apostles in New Kensington. “It’s very loopy.” Evi and her classmates are learning the art of ...

The signature of Declaration of Independence signer John Hancock on an envelope. I was thinking about how difficult it has become to maintain good penmanship in the internet era. When I was in grammar ...

Script is finding new life in after-school clubs where students can learn to loop and swoosh their handwriting.

Suzanne Baruch Asherson is a occupational therapist at the Beverly Hills Unified School District in California and a national presenter for Handwriting Without Tears, an early childhood education ...

To the editor - Re: The Nov. 15 article. Learning cursive writing in school is the basis for being a good writer and speaker of the English language. In addition to writing capital and lower case ...

Is cursive writing still being taught in America? Some states are starting to bring the old style back after disappearing. Cursive writing is a style of handwriting characterized by connected letters ...

The Ohio Department of Education and Workforce has spurred another debate on the worth of teaching cursive handwriting in the digital age by updating its five-year-old teaching guidance for ...

Children are taught to print in the first few years of grade school and, depending on the school, stay with printing throughout their academic careers or they are taught cursive in second or third ...

When was the last time you saw cursive letters on your computer screen, cell phone or tablet? No wonder students lose interest in cursive writing. By middle school or high school, most students print ...