Most children are taught to print the first few years of grade school and, depending on the school, either they stay with printing throughout their school careers or they are also taught cursive, ...

We learn things best as children, and they stay with us for a lifetime. Multiplication tables. How to tie shoes. Tell time. These are basic skills, and they’re locked in. I’m told you never forget how ...

A new Florida bill is trying to, once again, make cursive writing a required subject in schools. HB 127, introduced by ...

Today is National Handwriting Day! When you think of handwriting, you may think of the way you write your name or your penmanship during notetaking but what about the way you write? In today’s time, ...

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The Atlantic magazine recently ran an article on the demise of cursive writing, and judging from the letters to the editor, there are still many people who believe that the inability to write in ...

Remember when we were fighting not over LGBTQ books or how we teach race but whether students should learn to connect letters when they write by hand? The cursive chalk dust has cleared, but the ...

The national education standards, Common Core, aimed to kill the teaching of cursive. But it is not dead—just wounded. Yesterday, I did a radio interview on WHO in DesMoines, which bills itself as the ...

A new bill in the Florida House of Representatives (HB 127) proposes teaching cursive to students in grades 2–5.

Docusign redesigned its signatures for an era when fewer people write by hand. Libbie Bischoff didn’t set out to reinvent the ...