What happened? It is called the Common Core. We now know handwriting is a way to learn about a person. It is crucial.

Once upon a time, “keyboard” meant an expensive typewriter that weighed 40 pounds, so teaching penmanship in school seemed ...

After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard ... to keep it in the curriculum when many districts stopped teaching cursive. “It’s a dying art,” Durelli said. ...

The fine art of saying one thing and meaning another is a skill we ... between the penalties of outright disobedience and doing as one pleases. Following the letter rather than the spirit of the law ...