If we are serious about improving outcomes, we must strengthen every foundational literacy skill, including handwriting.

Among the staff at Topgolf, 11th-grader Augustine Fredericks has a rare and coveted skill. When a customer orders a ...

It’s a great, easy way to turn your handwriting into a font, but you can use it to create any typeface you can imagine as ...

A Virginia after-school cursive club went viral. More than two dozen states require cursive in their curriculums. Is it an ...

In an ever more digital world, pen and paper are increasingly getting replaced with screens and keyboards in classrooms. Now, a new study has investigated neural networks in the brain during hand- and ...

Twenty-seven states now have laws mandating or encouraging cursive instruction in public schools—up from only 14 a decade ago. Proponents believe cursive is an important life skill that has ...

Many people of a certain age remember practicing loops and waves, moving our small hands clutching pencils across pages with light blue dotted and solid lines. But in many schools, that elementary ...

Pennsylvania students will soon join a growing number of their peers nationwide practicing the looping, connected script of cursive writing—part of a broader national revival of the once-standard ...

The phenomenon of older guys getting together is even broader than writer Benjamin Cassidy describes (“A Curious Gathering of Dull Men,” January 25). There is also a national informal group, Retired ...

SUGARLOAF TWP. — Students in second grade began a lesson on cursive writing without using paper or pencils. They stood up and started to recite: “down curve, under curve, over curve” while moving ...

Each of the 15 students in Mollie Sweeney’s third grade class raised their dominant hand. Sweeney, a teacher at Burrell’s Bon Air Elementary, then walked through the motions of how to write a ...