COLUMBUS — As children increasingly are exposed to screens from an early age, some Ohio students still learn to write with a flourish – and maybe getting added literacy benefits. The Ohio Department ...

Like 32-volume encyclopedias or cassette tapes, cursive writing has become a casualty of technology. Why learn how to draw that funny-looking crooked triple loop when you can just tap the shift key ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Shoulders hunched and tongues curled, the third-graders at Horace Mann School in St. Paul, Minn., push their pencils to practice a fading art. As they copy out their spelling lists, ...

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 ...

Slate Hill — "How many people make the cursive 'I' that looks like this?" Betsy Corletta asked her fourth-grade class, while pointing to a row of perfectly formed letters on the blackboard. Few of her ...

Cedarwood School teacher Niki Gazley helps one of her students, Regan King, practice writing in cursive. Across the country, there's a new push to bring back an old skill. Last year, the Louisiana ...

I was thinking about how difficult it has become to maintain good penmanship in the internet era. When I was in grammar school, just about all our writing was cursive as opposed to block letters, and ...

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 ...

The signature of Declaration of Independence signer John Hancock on an envelope. I was thinking about how difficult it has become to maintain good penmanship in the internet era. When I was in grammar ...