RALEIGH, N.C.—Across North Carolina and in dozens of other states, teachers are committing what once would have been heresy: They are writing off cursive script. At a growing number of schools ...

Jan. 24, 2011 -- The handwriting may be on the wall for cursive. At least that's what some people fear as schools across the country continue to drop cursive handwriting from their curricula.

Since I first picked up a pen, I have been under the spell of handwriting. I've experimented endlessly with different scripts: straight up, right-slanting, left-slanting, print-like, florid, spare ...

From the beautiful ornate script we associate with days gone by to the rise of texting—handwriting has come a long way in the past century.

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.

DioPen Script offers handwriting recognition in over 40 languages and supports a variety of Latin, Cyrillic, and Asian scripts. Users can choose to either download languages or access them through ...

Cursive handwriting plays a part in developing them. Yoder said it helps stimulate the brain in a variety of ways that can have long-lasting implications in a way that typing does not.

2016 being the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s death, many institutions are doing celebrations of one sort or another. The British Library, in hosting a major exhibition , has put online the only ...

Adonit’s Jot Script, a stylus designed for non-artist notetakers, just got a refresh. The company is counting on updates to its Bluetooth-connected pen to make it easier for business and ...

Moreover, it can also understand script handwriting better, which means that it would not matter if one's penmanship is not in print format, as the iPad's Notes app can handle what users throw at it.