Missouri legislators are again pushing to make learning to write cursive mandatory for kids in kindergarten through fifth ...

Many people of a certain age remember practicing loops and waves, moving our small hands clutching pencils across pages with light blue dotted and solid lines. But in many schools, that elementary ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

I preach to my kids to expand their horizons and do things outside of their comfort zones, yet I have been happy behind a computer keyboard tapping out my thoughts and telling others’ stories for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What do the U.S. Constitution, birthday cards and your signature have in common? They’re (likely) all in cursive. However, ...

Kate Gladstone is the founder of Handwriting Repair/Handwriting That Works and the director of the World Handwriting Contest. April 30, 2013 Handwriting matters, but not cursive. The fastest, clearest ...

Twelve-year-old Sandi Chandee wants to be a doctor when she grows up. But that's not why she memorized one of the longest medical terms in the English language ...

Suzanne Baruch Asherson is a occupational therapist at the Beverly Hills Unified School District in California and a national presenter for Handwriting Without Tears, an early childhood education ...

I'm thrilled to see cursive handwriting in the news and in the classroom. Even better, the headlines agree with what I ...

For the holiday season, I ordered holiday cards without pre-printed address labels. I wanted to write them out myself so my cards would look less like a direct-mail campaign and appear more genuine. I ...

An out-of-state reader-friend recently reported being flabbergasted by a high school graduation invitation addressed in block lettering. My friend wondered if etiquette had disappeared from our ...