Nearly 40 years later, the admonishments of my second-grade teacher at Thomas Jefferson Elementary in Anaheim still ring in my ears. “Messy! Messy!” I was a precocious 8-year-old, placed in a ...

I get it — you hate writing by hand. But have you ever considered why that is? Is it because typing is easier, faster, and more convenient here in 2023? Maybe so. All of those notwithstanding… ...

When I looked at my loose-leaf binder, I didn’t see a repository for assignments; I saw my accomplice in wasting paper and churning out messy work. That backstory about cursive writing is reason ...

A 1602 guide on how to hold a pen correctly. We might think bad handwriting is a uniquely 21st-century problem, but people have struggled with their penmanship for centuries.

Less than 10 years ago, only 14 states required schools to teach cursive—but that number has been steadily increasing, with 24 now having some kind of requirement. This year, Kentucky became the ...