The use of pencils, pens, paper workbooks and textbooks — along with the teaching of cursive handwriting and a stipulation ...

As a new school year begins, many children will be returning to classrooms filled with brand new computers, tablets and other tools essential to prep students for life in a plugged-in world. But as ...

NEW ORLEANS, LA (WVUE) - When it comes to writing, digital devices make it easy and fast. They even serve as the spelling police, and the convenience causes more and more people to nearly write off ...

Our ongoing series A More Perfect Union aims to show that what unites us as Americans is far greater than what divides us. In this installment, we look at the power of the written word. Common Core ...

Imagine getting a baseball autographed. Reading the oil-stained recipe card for your grandma's legendary banana bread. Viewing the antiqued parchment of the original U.S. Declaration of Independence ...

The death of cursive handwriting reared its ugly head during the recent presidential election. Since 2010, according to Yahoo News, many states have dropped cursive writing from their curricula as ...

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

As school-age children increasingly rely solely on digital devices for remote- and in-class learning, many K-12 school systems around the world are phasing out cursive handwriting and no longer ...

From top left, Pam Davidson, Kathy Rotto, Gloria Box and Sue Standlee, all residents at Presbyterian Village North in Dallas, write to third-grade students in Karen Gunter's class at Good Shepherd ...

Over a half century ago, in school, we began learning cursive handwriting. Above the blackboard on a cork background was stapled the letters of the alphabet in capital and lower case in cursive ...