Click here to see how Emily’s and her daughter’s handwriting improved. If you have school-age children, you may have noticed their handwriting is terrible. They may communicate incessantly via written ...

In Article Audio Player M y handwriting is execrable. I routinely desecrate the elegant, engraved stationery that my husband gave me as a birthday present with cramped, misshapen, and only partly ...

Monique McGowan sharpens a No. 2 pencil, straightens her posture and sharply slants her notebook to prepare for her weekly lesson in cursive. She and other third graders at Horrall Elementary School ...

I have a missing person to report. It's someone many of you knew _ especially those readers at whom Seniority is primarily aimed. The name is Palmer. A. N. Palmer. I don't even know if A. N. was, say ...

Those hicks in Indiana – Hoosiers they call ’em – have decided their children don’t need to learn their letters. Specifically, cursive writing, which is a fancy word for script. Beginning this fall, ...

Handwriting has its place: electronic systems can crash at any instant, and may stay down for months. Further, students who learn literacy through handwriting, rather than through key-pressing, ...

The Vault is Slate’s new history blog. Like us on Facebook; follow us on Twitter @slatevault; find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. Handwriting in ...