In addition to learning to sign their name or read greeting cards from grandparents, children practicing cursive writing hone ...

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 ...

The flow of motion from putting pencil to paper and writing in cursive strengthens cognitive development and fosters fine ...

Each of the 15 students in Mollie Sweeney’s third grade class raised their dominant hand. Sweeney, a teacher at Burrell’s Bon ...

“I like how my pencil feels on the paper when I write it,” Evi said from her classroom at Mary Queen of Apostles in New Kensington. “It’s very loopy.” Evi and her classmates are learning the art of ...

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 ...

Not having been blessed with grandchildren, the news came to me a little late. I couldn’t believe it. “Yes,” said the mother of my great nephew, “it’s true. Schools will no longer teach cursive ...

In a busy sixth-grade classroom at Millennial Tech Middle School Wednesday, Thomas Courtney taught a language arts lesson. He also teaches history and now penmanship. “I took my cursive writing so ...

It’s a skill most people learn in 3rd grade but now is really only used to write a signature. So, in a digital age, is cursive handwriting still necessary? "If they don't learn it in 2nd and 3rd grade ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

When Jack Lew was nominated to be Treasury secretary in 2013, President Barack Obama joked that as a condition of the appointment, Lew would have to learn to sign his name more legibly. The ...