Third graders at Good Shepherd Episcopal in Dallas are learning a lost art, practicing cursive by writing letters to their pen pals ... a lot of people who still use that "funny writing." ...

Does anyone under the age of twenty ever use it anymore? They will, if the minds behind Lernstift have anything to say about it. They’ve got a haptic smart-pen that will spellcheck your script ...

Growing up in Saudi Arabia, I learned cursive with a fountain pen in the third grade as part of the standard curriculum. I wasn’t good at school, and being left-handed but forced to write with ...

NEW ORLEANS, LA (WVUE) - When it comes to writing ... choose whether to teach cursive writing and some schools did. "I think we started to push children too young to use all these devices ...

Named “Fight for Your Write,” it includes a pledge ... the role of the ballpoint in the decline of cursive. She explains that the type of pen grip taught in contemporary grade school is ...

Even if students use digital pens and write by hand ... were handwriting in cursive, typewriting on a keyboard, or drawing visually presented words using a digital pen on a touchscreen, or with ...

With so many alternative and quicker ways to communicate, what is the point of writing something down with a pen on paper ... for personal use. However, if you don't learn cursive writing how ...

“The problem with just teaching cursive in third grade is that when we don’t’ follow up in fourth and fifth grade, by requiring the kids to use it ... writing with a pen or pencil.

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The swirling lines from Linden Bateman’s pen have been conscripted into a national fight to keep cursive writing in American ... when children use cursive handwriting than ...

Mandatory Credit: Photo by AP/REX/Shutterstock (8469109c) A third-grader practices his cursive handwriting ... Van der Meer added that using a pen in the process of writing or drawing is often ...

Updated April 30, 2013, 6:29 PM Putting pen to paper stimulates the brain like nothing else, even in this age of e-mails, texts and tweets. In fact, learning to write in cursive is shown to ...