Many school systems in this country no longer teach penmanship, especially cursive writing. I strongly disagree with their decision to discontinue teaching penmanship. The entire financial and legal ...

Learning to read and write cursive was once a rite of passage for practically every American schoolchild. Until the early ...

Generations of school kids learned penmanship; whether future generations will learn to write their ABC's by hand at ALL, however, is very much in doubt. Our Cover Story is reported now by Tracy Smith ...

The curlicue letters of cursive handwriting, once considered a mainstay of American elementary education, have been slowly disappearing from classrooms for years. Now, with most states adopting new ...

"It's much more likely that keyboarding will help students succeed in careers and in school than it is that cursive will," said Morgan Polikoff, assistant professor of K-12 policy and leadership at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Writing in cursive won't make you write faster. Cursive is making a comeback. States and provinces across North America are ...

TRYING TO WRITE a note by hand after years of typing on a physical keyboard or smartphone screen can be discouraging. Often, the spastic result only vaguely resembles penmanship. Thankfully, though, ...

Since the U.S. Department of Education dropped cursive writing from standard national curricula in 2011, the debate on the value of learning penmanship has raged. Some argue that the skill is obsolete ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. If pen retailers and state legislators are to be believed, cursive handwriting is ...

Pencil and paper — that's what Aldine teacher Ebony Brown typically uses to help her 4- and 5-year-old students learn to write. “It's frustrating for them,” Brown said, noting that many children come ...

Thank goodness for technology. With e-mail delivering us from the need for the handwritten note, so too does it deliver all future generations from the drudgery of penmanship instruction. Phew!

Artful handwriting and beautiful penmanship still matter.