Generations of school kids learned penmanship; whether future generations will learn to write their ABC's by hand at ALL, however, is very much in doubt. Our Cover Story is reported now by Tracy Smith ...

Thank goodness for technology. With e-mail delivering us from the need for the handwritten note, so too does it deliver all future generations from the drudgery of penmanship instruction. Phew!

WINEDALE - Here at the old country house in Washington County, on a day of near-perfect weather when everything should be working right, the computer I write on has gotten tired of me. It doesn't like ...

Anaya Ellick accepted an award Wednesday for her penmanship skilled, and she was born without hands. At just 9-years-old nothing stops, Anaya. She won the 2018 Zaner-Bloser National Handwriting ...

Sixth-graders in Linda Op de Beeck’s classroom at Barton Elementary School in Anaheim must complete all their homework assignments on computers. The result, she says, is neater and easier to grade.

Karen Wray helps her daughter Emily with her cursive as the two work on penmanship Thursday, July 1, 2010 in the kitchen of their Lawrence home. Emily Hutchinson learned to type before she learned to ...

In all my years as a reporter, few people have been able to read my notes. Even I have trouble deciphering my handwriting at times. Of course, that's certainly understandable given my "chicken scratch ...

READFIELD, Maine -- A 10-year-old boy who earned a spot in a national penmanship contest despite being born without hands is in a league of his own, contest organizers say. Fifth-grader Nicholas Maxim ...

It is important to promote good handwriting in kids. The computer — more accurately, the Internet — has brought us so much. So much information, resources, power. But what it has taken away in return ...

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 ...