The debate to KEEP handwriting falls into two categories -- those that felt it had historical and artistic significance, and those that felt it would damage the children and society as a whole to not be able to write a signature, read a cursive document, and develop fine motor skills in their hands.
By Laura L. Myers SEATTLE (Reuters) - Washington state's governor signed into law on Monday the final piece of a six-year effort to rew...
Entitled, "Sigmund Freud Typeface - A Letter to your Shrink," a Kickstarter project, aims to turn the esteemed twentieth-century psychoanalyst's handwriting into a computer typeface that would allow for digital letter writing.
How many of our children have held a hand-written letter in their hands and read it over and over again? How many have stored them away and pulled them out when they're having a really tough day?
While vacationing in Hawaii, President Obama had no choice but to sign the long-awaited 'fiscal cliff' deal with his autopen. The administration can say what it wants, but here's the truth: Obama, like the rest of us, must have forgotten how to write in cursive.
Hitler seems to have disliked writing by hand altogether.
In a world that gives the impression that "what you see is what you get," how can we train ourselves to access more information? How can we -- and our kids -- actually learn how to see when we are all inundated by imagery that, on one level, is blinding?
I recently opened an email account for my mom and taught her how to compose messages to my sisters and I so we could stay in touch while she is traveling. The passion with which she wrote shocked me.
Where do we see the authentic human spirit captured in handwritten glory today? In love letters? In loving notes placed in lunchboxes? Or do we consider our humanity best expressed in tweets?
Hawaii is joining several states across the country that are dropping cursive writing from mandatory school curriculum. The Aloha state has adopted...
In our world of e-mails, texts, and tweets, the art of the handwritten letter has, for the most part, been abandoned. Since the emergence of the Inter...
Earlier this month, the Indiana Department of Education joined the ranks of school systems that will no longer require the teaching of cursive writing.
Cursive handwriting instruction is disappearing. Students and teachers alike have swapped pencils for keyboards, baselines for blinking cursors, a...
There is nothing like the freedom of a pencil as I'm taking the muck that is a first draft and trying to make something of it. Not quite right the first time? Erase and try again!
Yesterday I walked out to our mailbox and found not one Christmas card. It's not that our family has suddenly become unpopular, but that old-fashioned, handwritten cards are a ghost of the Christmas past.
Of all the different methods out there for finding key personality traits, graphology, the analysis of handwriting, seems to make some sense. Think of...
