Recently I came across a paper I wrote 60 years ago, in 1965, when I was a freshman at Cooperstown Central School. The English teacher required every ninth-grader to write an autobiography. I thought ...

In California, students between first and sixth grade will learn to write in cursive under a new state law. Yes, cursive. But is cursive a skill that students or adults actually need? Try out these ...

The post, which argued that cursive handwriting should continue to be taught in schools, garnered more than 500 comments. It's a touchy subject: Is there a reason schools should continue to teach ...