If you had to read this column in my original handwriting, you wouldn't have gotten this far. Simply put, my cursive looks like a cross between blood-splatter evidence and a Gordian knot of scribbling ...

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, ...

WASHINGTON -- John Hancock wouldn't recognize the handwriting taught in many schools today. And his loopy, slanted script might as well be a foreign language to 21st-century students. Time and ...

Welcome to Camp HandRIGHTing Ink., a place to mind one’s p’s and q’s and other details of proper penmanship. Yes, this is a place for children to practice putting pencil to paper — something that has ...

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 Some argue that the skill is obsolete ...

While some people have been blessed with 'perfect' penmanship, others have been cursed with doctor's handwriting. But, like everything, you can improve your handwriting with practice and patience.

Monique McGowan sharpens a No. 2 pencil, straightens her posture and sharply slants her notebook to prepare for her weekly lesson in cursive. She and other third graders at Horrall Elementary School ...

Erica Ingber has something of a dark past when it comes to handwriting: The future elementary school principal got a C-minus in cursive in the fourth grade. But she’s ready to follow the curvy ups and ...

Although cursive handwriting “is a dying field,” as one teacher said, it has made a comeback in some schools, including one in Maine where two students won awards this month. By Jesus Jiménez For ...