In an age where screens dominate classrooms and workplaces, handwriting might seem like a relic of the past. But research shows that putting pen to paper plays a crucial role in literacy development. ...

I type all day. I swipe and tap on my phone. I scribble notes to myself on paper. I’m happy with my mostly-digital life. But every now and then I’ll get a handwritten note—from an old lady, ...

A pair of bills filed for the 2026 Legislative Session would mandate students from second to fifth grade to learn how to ...

When was the last time you wrote in cursive? Fifty-eight years ago The Saturday Evening Post was already calling America a "nation of scrawlers." Now, the recently established Common Core State ...

The good news for those late to the art of the pen is that a new coloring book makes the process of learning cursive easy, fun and beautiful. The Art of Cursive uses a patent-pending method that ...

It’s quickly becoming a lost art: he handwritten, cursive letter. As schools shifted toward computers and iPads in recent years, teaching cursive handwriting has fallen out of fashion. But, as L.A.

Rose Kennedy, who will be an eighth grader at Billy Mills Middle School, wears the medal she earned this spring for winning the Zaner-Bloser National Handwriting Contest representing Kansas.

Re “What’s the Point of Teaching Cursive?,” by John McWhorter (Opinion, nytimes.com, Dec. 13): The idea that most cursive documents will be “transliterated into print” is fine until you realize that ...