Jan. 23 is National Handwriting Day, invented by the Writing Instrument Manufacturers Association in 1977 and pegged to John Hancock’s birthday. On this day, Big Pen encourages you to “use a ...

But beyond that, there is an artistic flair about cursive penmanship—everyone’s writing is personally symbolic—not to mention the larger benefit of a child interacting with letters and ...

In this Wednesday, March 1, 2017, photo, a sample of cursive letters are on display in the third-grade classroom at P.S. 166 in the Queens borough of New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) ...

Defenders of script argued variously that knowledge of cursive was “a basic right,” a key connection between hand and brain, an essential form of self-discipline, and a fundamental expression ...

In this Wednesday, March 1, 2017, photo, a third-grader practices his cursive handwriting at P.S. 166 in the Queens borough of New York. Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools.

COLUMBUS, Ohio -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 ...

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And a survey of handwriting teachers by Zaner-Bloser, a cursive textbook publisher, found that only 37 percent of them write exclusively in script. Another 8 percent write only in print, while ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools across the country after a generation of students who know only keyboarding, texting and printing out their words longhand ...