Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Good handwriting is not an end in itself. Rather, it is a means to literacy that fundamentally transforms the human experience.

NEW YORK (AP) — Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools across the country after a generation of students who know only keyboarding, texting and printing out their words longhand.

A Maryland sixth grader received a national award for her handwriting.Freya Mojica was selected as champion for her grade in the Zaner-Bloser National Handwriting Contest."I practice a lot of drawing, ...

PHOENIX — With eyebrows furrowed and fingers holding pencils in clawlike grips, third graders at Lowell Elementary School in Mesa were tackling an assignment involving one of the most controversial ...

Handwriting still has a place in the digital age, its proponents say, and they hoped that what they billed as a “summit” on the subject this week would spotlight their case for the enduring value of ...

Kate Gladstone is the founder of Handwriting Repair/Handwriting That Works and the director of the World Handwriting Contest. April 30, 2013 Handwriting matters, but not cursive. The fastest, clearest ...