I'm a writer, and to generate words I care about I first write them longhand, with pen and ink on paper. I'm also a teacher of creative writing, and when I tell my students—virtually all of whom write ...

The Times asked readers for samples of their cursive and to talk about their relationship with old-fashioned, longhand writing with its loops, curls and dips. A new law will require all California ...

When I sit in a lecture hall, my eyes tend to wander away from the professor and toward my peers. You know the picture: Some students are chatting with their friends over iMessage, while others are ...

For all the new things that schools will be called on to teach under the soon-to-be-implemented Common Core curriculum standards, it’s a skill that has been omitted that is causing controversy: ...

Excellent handwriting used to be the hallmark of an educated, thoughtful person. But who writes in longhand these days? I may be a writer, but when it comes to putting words down on paper, I’m a ...

In the good old days when illiteracy was the normal human condition, handwriting was something to be proud of—and looked it. The Declaration of Independence was signed with grace and style, but if ...

Longtime Canton attorney Douglas Savage loves books. "One of the things that attracted me to the legal profession was being surrounded by old books." Legal precedents and opinions reach far back in ...

A recent New York Times article, Laptops Are Great. But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting, resumed the debate over whether laptops and other digital devices should be banned from classrooms, and if ...