That’s when it hit me; writing isn’t just about putting words on paper. There are other benefits to it as well—important benefits—that are being lost. My son can’t sign his name. At least he couldn’t, ...

Cursive is being taught less and less these days. It is no longer a needed skill to survive in the US, thanks largely to computers and most of the writing being moved to electronic devices.

On a recent Tuesday night, I attended the parents’ open house at my daughters’ school, a Taft-era brick building in New Haven, Connecticut, which serves four hundred and fifty children, in grades ...

I remember the first time my second-grade teacher permitted me to use cursive writing on my assignments. At the time, I viewed it as an accomplishment: I could now use cursive for all my assignments!

Is learning cursive writing essential for developing young minds, or is it an outdated skill being championed by nostalgic policymakers? The question sparked a lively and personal debate on a recent ...

Being within a month of my 60th birthday, of course I learned to write cursive (never super-pretty) and read it, but since about the early 90s, with email and USENET and later online bill paying and ...

As followers of education controversies know by now, the Common Core academic standards, soon to be carried out by 45 states, don't require the teaching of cursive handwriting. The curricular gap has ...

Remember cursive writing? Well it fell out of favor but some schools are bringing it back and students are actually competing at mastering cursive writing. When was the last time you ever wrote a note ...