Old-fashioned penmanship is better for your brain—and it’s making a comeback in classrooms. Cursive handwriting is making a big comeback in schools for students of the Gen Alpha generation (born ...

A few months ago, I pulled out a kids’ book for my seven-year-old to read to me. She opened the first page, shook her head and handed it back. “I can’t read this,” she said. “It’s in cursive.” First, ...

People often credit my good handwriting to my Catholic school education—like a nun with a ruler and a taste for corporal punishment perfected my penmanship. But that’s not why. It’s because of my mom.