Laptops and organizer apps make pen and paper seem antique, but handwriting appears to focus classroom attention and boost learning in a way that typing notes on a keyboard does not, new studies ...

Ordinary and universal, the act of writing changes the brain. From dashing off a heated text message to composing an op-ed, ...

Writing by hand engages more of the brain than typing. Scientists say the cognitive demands of handwriting may help keep the ...

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.

It’s a familiar refrain. Parents lament that technology is turning good, legible handwriting into a lost art form for their kids. In response, lawmakers in state after state – particularly in the ...

Cursive writing is officially making a comeback in Ohio.Gov. John Kasich signed into law House Bill 58 Wednesday, which requires the Department of Education to include supplemental instructional ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Accused of killing 17 people at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., and injuring more than a dozen others, Nikolas Cruz had only been in custody a few hours when ...

Handwriting had a good run, many thousands of years isn’t bad for an important human activity. It probably started with cavemen scratching signs in the dirt with their spears. Millenniums passed with ...