Common Core standards do not call for cursive instruction as mandatory part of curriculum At least 41 states do not require public schools to teach cursive reading or writing The standards promote ...

Digital might be king right now, but cursive is making a comeback. If you spend any time on social media at all, you’ve seen the handwringing over the loss of cursive writing — that ancient form of ...

The history of calligraphy—the art of handwriting as a medium of expression beyond the meaning of words themselves—could be generically traced to the earliest found symbols. There was a time when ...

To the editor: As a 77-year-old who won my school’s penmanship competition in fourth grade, I’m pretty happy that California kids will be learning cursive handwriting. (“Learning cursive in school, ...

Usually product shows are geared around baseball cards, guns or electronics. But a pen show? Oh yes, there's apparently an area of interest there, and the St. Louis Pen Show is happening next month.

It was with great interest that I read “Write-off - Cursive handwriting no longer stressed at Eastern Iowa schools (April 26).” How sad. How many of us remember parents or grandparents who had ...

MANILA, Philippines - These days, typography is used in social media and graphic arts as a trendy way to depict nostalgia. It adds a dash of panache to an otherwise mundane motto or rant of the day. A ...