Generations of school kids learned penmanship; whether future generations will learn to write their ABC's by hand at ALL, however, is very much in doubt. Our Cover Story is reported now by Tracy Smith ...

Thank goodness for technology. With e-mail delivering us from the need for the handwritten note, so too does it deliver all future generations from the drudgery of penmanship instruction. Phew!

Sixth-graders in Linda Op de Beeck’s classroom at Barton Elementary School in Anaheim must complete all their homework assignments on computers. The result, she says, is neater and easier to grade.

WINEDALE - Here at the old country house in Washington County, on a day of near-perfect weather when everything should be working right, the computer I write on has gotten tired of me. It doesn't like ...

Anaya Ellick accepted an award Wednesday for her penmanship skilled, and she was born without hands. At just 9-years-old nothing stops, Anaya. She won the 2018 Zaner-Bloser National Handwriting ...

Karen Wray helps her daughter Emily with her cursive as the two work on penmanship Thursday, July 1, 2010 in the kitchen of their Lawrence home. Emily Hutchinson learned to type before she learned to ...

WASHINGTON -- John Hancock wouldn't recognize the handwriting taught in many schools today. And his loopy, slanted script might as well be a foreign language to 21st-century students. Time and ...

READFIELD, Maine -- A 10-year-old boy who earned a spot in a national penmanship contest despite being born without hands is in a league of his own, contest organizers say. Fifth-grader Nicholas Maxim ...

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 ...

This eight-page handwritten letter by Private Franklin H. Durrah describes his service as a private in the Union Army during the Civil War, which ended with the loss of his right arm. The letter’s ...