Reports of the handwriting style’s demise might be exaggerated as it has displayed a gritty staying power.

Tired of texting? Send your loved ones some snail mail instead. Rachel Syme, author of "Syme's Letter Writer: A Guide to Modern Correspondence," shares whimsical ways to start a letter-writing habit.

Reports indicate people are writing by hand less and less, so if you find yourself struggling to recall your friends’ or classmates’ script, you are far from alone. Our need for handwriting has ...

The curlicue letters of cursive handwriting, once considered a mainstay of American elementary education, have been slowly disappearing from classrooms for years. Now, with most states adopting ...

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

We’ve all seen labels that look to be in cursive—on holiday cards, or wedding invitations for example. There is even a robot that promise to pen letters in your handwriting.

The following interactive tests your handwriting by challenging you to draw cursive letters on the screen and comparing them to the standard version that was taught in elementary schools for decades.

The Universal Typeface Experiment lets anyone, from anywhere in the world, draw the letters of the alphabet and then submit them into a massive database.

Engaging the fine motor system to produce letters by hand has positive effects on learning and memory ...

A few determined people are doing their best to keep letters arriving in U.S. mailboxes. One Michigan woman writes up to 60 letters a week — some of them to the students she's met in 50 years of ...