Cursive was removed from most American school curricula after a specific policy decision in 2010, not because it naturally faded from relevance. Neuroscience research shows that handwriting activates ...

Having a good relationship with your grandparents is a special thing. Not everyone has the privilege of even knowing their grandparents, so having them with you in their old age can mean a lot. One ...

Re “What’s the Point of Teaching Cursive?,” by John McWhorter (Opinion, nytimes.com, Dec. 13): The idea that most cursive documents will be “transliterated into print” is fine until you realize that ...

Christina Archer was cleaning out the bedroom of her former London, Ont., home in 2001 when an envelope fell out of from the wall behind her closet. In it was a nearly century-old handwritten letter ...

As school-age children increasingly rely solely on digital devices for remote- and in-class learning, many K-12 school systems around the world are phasing out cursive handwriting and no longer ...