New bills in Florida would mandate cursive instruction for students in second through fifth grade. Proponents argue cursive is important for reading historical documents and developing a personal ...

For the tech-savvy youth of today, reading and writing cursive is a skill viewed as almost entirely obsolete. Save for handwritten name cards adorning a wedding reception table, most don’t see the ...

Fifth-grade students at Edward L. Whigham Elementary School write their names on certificates on Nov. 14, 2024, in Cutler Bay. Sophia Bolivar [email protected] Over the weekend, I visited the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Writer, editor, publisher and fan of all things handwritten. The news is giving me whiplash. And I’m not talking about the ...

International Handwriting Week started Jan. 17, culminating on Jan. 23, the birthday of John Hancock. Hancock signed his name boldly on the Declaration of Independence. Sadly, many of our children ...

Many people of a certain age remember practicing loops and waves, moving our small hands clutching pencils across pages with light blue dotted and solid lines. But in many schools, that elementary ...

Two hundred and fifty years ago in Pennsylvania, the Declaration of Independence was written and signed in cursive. Now, schools across the commonwealth are mandated to teach that style of handwriting ...