Last week, the TUAW back room got into an incredibly extended debate regarding the merits of iTrace (US$3.99), a kid-centric app that teaches kids basic letter-writing skills. In the end, I pinged the ...

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 ...

The pen might be mightier than the sword, but it could soon be just as relevant. Educators and parents are observing a surge in US youths who don’t know how to read or write in cursive — which they ...

This weekend, Liane Hansen is interviewing author Kitty Burns Florey, who wrote a book about the decline of penmanship in our digital age. I remember how proud I was in the third grade, when I was ...

Anaya uses her forearms to write, opting to forgo prostheses. — -- Virginia first grader Anaya Ellick, 7, has such good handwriting, she beat out 50 other youngsters from around the country to ...

Is learning cursive writing essential for developing young minds, or is it an outdated skill being championed by nostalgic policymakers? The question sparked a lively and personal debate on a recent ...

Grand National Handwriting Champion Kendall Grabinski looks up and smiles, taking a break from her careful recreation of the sentence: ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.’ Lehman-Jackson ...