In years gone by, it helped distinguish the literate from the illiterate. But now, in the digital age, people are increasingly communicating by computer and smartphone. No handwritten signature ...

This column has often mentioned the Dakota Business College in Fargo, its penmanship classes and the Watkins family that operated the school. Here’s a note from Lee Watkins, Fargo. His grandfather, F.

Cursive is fading, but advocates say it conveys intelligence, engages creativity COLUMBUS, Ohio – The swirling lines from Linden Bateman’s pen have been conscripted into a national fight to keep ...

The educational company Zaner-Bloser hosts an annual national handwriting contest. Each year one winner is chosen from kindergarten through 8th grade. Winners receive a $500 cash prize, a trophy, and ...

Since the U.S. Department of Education dropped cursive writing from standard national curricula in 2011, the debate on the value of learning penmanship has raged. Some argue that the skill is obsolete ...

The question facing Dr. Paul Hackmeyer was this: How could he convince his hospital’s doctors that their penmanship ranked right up there with hieroglyphics? Doctors’ handwriting is, of course, one of ...

think back when was the last time you used cursive chances are, was to sign something. Most of us learned cursive in school. But for Children growing up in *** world of laptops, smartphones and ...

If there was any grade-school subject I hated more than Arithmetic it was Penmanship! The very thought of those two subjects could turn my insides wrongside out! Having to sit there in class while the ...

The pencil salesman’s lament will likely sound familiar: “Penmanship,” he complained, “is sort of dying out.” In today’s texting, typing world, worry about the “dying art” of handwriting is a common ...