As we gathered data, surveyed people and set up experiments, it became clear that those tiny shortcuts -- sometimes hailed as ...

After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters in ...

This was the setting of indie rock band Bright Eyes’ gig at the Salt Shed April 5. Fronted by lead vocalist and guitarist ...

But our findings suggest that the mere inclusion of abbreviations, although seemingly benign, start feeling like a brush-off. In other words, whenever a texter chops words down to their bare ...

By Lloyd Albritton Columnist When I was in public school many years ago our textbooks were free in the state of Florida where I attended my first through twelfth grade years. Textbooks were issued to ...

The Florida House passed the cursive handwriting bill unanimously, 131-0. Now, it must pass the Senate and be signed into law ...

What happened? It is called the Common Core. We now know handwriting is a way to learn about a person. It is crucial.

Once upon a time, “keyboard” meant an expensive typewriter that weighed 40 pounds, so teaching penmanship in school seemed ...

Ask Kendall Grabinski what she does well, and the fifth grader from Lehman-Jackson Elementary School mentions gymnastics and ...

The Mississippi Legislature adjourned Wednesday, ending its three-month session with one major item of business ...

If you cannot decipher cursive, you can’t really experience literature’s great works in their original version. Same for ...