Priestess of the moon god and daughter of Sargon the Great, Enheduanna amassed political power and waged war with her honeyed words.

Learning to read and write cursive was once a rite of passage for practically every American schoolchild. Until the early ...

For decades, teachers, parents and wider society recognised the importance of good cursive script. Beautiful handwriting has the ability to stop us in our tracks. We notice it, we admire it and many ...

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A Michigan lawmaker has introduced a bill to reintroduce cursive writing instruction in schools as an option. Proponents argue cursive connects students to history, improves cognitive function, and ...

Years after it was omitted from the Common Core standards, some students are practicing cursive in clubs after school and in libraries. Some states are bringing it back to classrooms. Credit ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Melody Eichbauer grew up learning cursive in grade school and scribbling exam answers until her hand cramped well into her college years. Eichbauer, a professor of medieval, legal ...

Bad handwriting has a way of stealing attention in the classroom. It pulls the eye away from ideas and toward mechanics, away from insight and toward legibility. In my Montessori upper elementary ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Writer, editor, publisher and fan of all things handwritten. The news is giving me whiplash. And I’m not talking about the ...

Using skills some view as obsolete, volunteers turned century-old cursive correspondence into computer text on Monday at Bowling Green State University. As part of the national AmeriCorps Week of ...

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio — If you have an eye for understanding the loopy, flowing penmanship of cursive writing, archivists are seeking your help in transcribing handwritten historical documents to make ...