In response to a growing trend where public schools are dropping the teaching of cursive, I wrote a blog post defending the value of learning cursive. 1 The new Common Core standards, adopted by 45 ...

While pen and paper may seem poised on the edge of obscurity, handwriting offers a bevy of brain-boosting perks that should not be lost to technology. Melissa Breyer was Treehugger’s senior editorial ...

On the other side of the inkwell, many redditors view cursive as a solution to a problem that no longer exists. They argue that the script was originally designed to prevent ink blots from quills and ...

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If you're like many digitally savvy Americans, it has likely been a while since you've spent much time writing by hand. The laborious process of tracing out our thoughts, letter by letter, on the page ...

An Indiana Department of Education report due this Friday may add fuel to the debate for the return of compulsory cursive writing instruction at Hoosier public and charter elementary schools. Or, it ...

California has enacted a law requiring schools to teach cursive writing. For years, learning cursive was considered an outdated and unnecessary skill, but the heavy reliance on technology has led to a ...

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 ...

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