Handwriting still has a place in the digital age, its proponents say, and they hoped that what they billed as a “summit” on the subject this week would spotlight their case for the enduring value of ...

One of my favorite memories of eighth grade was watching a classmate handwrite the next day's assignments on a chalk board. The different styles of writing and joining the letters together is almost ...

The monkey tail is dead. It sounds morbid and sad, but there is no mourning here in Kristi Burton’s first-grade classroom at Duffy School. Teacher and students have moved on. The D’Nealian alphabet’s ...

Thibault Asselborn worked his way through graduate school by teaching piano. As his students improved their finger dexterity and muscle memory, he discovered the same concepts that help or hinder a ...

Most of us have heard the phrase: “You write like a doctor.” That means an individual’s penmanship is so sloppy that it’s difficult to read. Doctors have a reputation for poor penmanship but not to ...

STAUNTON — A few weeks ago one of the reporters at The News Leader received an envelope from someone with a story idea. She opened it and realized it was a handwritten letter in cursive. Her first ...

In 2006 when I arrived as president at Harvey Mudd College, a small (800 students) science and engineering college in Claremont, Cal., my first order of business was to lead a strategic planning ...