Most of us have heard the phrase: “You write like a doctor.” That means an individual’s penmanship is so sloppy that it’s difficult to read. Doctors have a reputation for poor penmanship but not to ...

STAUNTON — A few weeks ago one of the reporters at The News Leader received an envelope from someone with a story idea. She opened it and realized it was a handwritten letter in cursive. Her first ...

Madison Walker, a 24-year-old third grade teacher at Samuel E. Hubbard, recalled moving as an elementary student from a ...

The third-grade students at St. Clare/St. Paul School placed their pencils on the lined paper, carefully and elegantly writing “Dear Santa” in cursive on Friday. Students at the Catholic school in ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — January 23 is National Handwriting Day. The day was created in 1977 to promote the use of pens, pencils and paper. But in 2020, is learning how to write in cursive still important?

PHOENIX, Ariz. (KSAZ) - Starting next year, elementary schools in Arizona will be required to teach one of the three time-honored "R's": Writing. More specifically, cursive writing. When the new rules ...

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 ...

Should children be required to learn cursive? A New Jersey legislator says so. Assemblywoman Angela McKnight has introduced a bill that would require elementary schools to teach kids how to read and ...

In the fall of 2014, a piece of news caused quite a stir in the education community. One of the societies most renowned for its quality educational environment, Finland, was going to eliminate the ...

One of my favorite memories of eighth grade was watching a classmate handwrite the next day's assignments on a chalk board. The different styles of writing and joining the letters together is almost ...