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 ...

Two and a half years ago, I presented a carefully thought-out argument for not requiring schools to teach cursive, calling it ...

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!

Kids growing up these days — especially those at the elementary level — may not be as familiar with cursive writing, penmanship or handwriting, as their older brothers and sisters, parents or ...

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 ...

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 ...

In all my years of school, there was only one time I cried in class. It was the first week of first grade—Mrs. Scougie's room—and we were learning cursive. Q. I hated the letter. But it wasn't that I ...

The world has increasingly more technology – from iPhones, to laptops and everything in between. So, is penmanship still important? “Penmanship is especially important in the young grades because ...

Technology has always been popular with the bottom of the class. Calculators! We don’t have to learn arithmetic! Spell-checking programs! It’s a waste of time to learn to spell! Search engines! We can ...

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 ...

A recent study suggests that a little handwriting instruction can go a long way in staving off writing problems. The report, by researchers at the University of Maryland College Park is based on a ...