This column has often mentioned the Dakota Business College in Fargo, its penmanship classes and the Watkins family that operated the school. Here’s a note from Lee Watkins, Fargo. His grandfather, F.

Cursive is fading, but advocates say it conveys intelligence, engages creativity COLUMBUS, Ohio – The swirling lines from Linden Bateman’s pen have been conscripted into a national fight to keep ...

The Forum recently carried a story about California schools that are teaching kids in third grade how to write longhand despite today's computer-driven technology. That brings up items Neighbors has ...

The question facing Dr. Paul Hackmeyer was this: How could he convince his hospital’s doctors that their penmanship ranked right up there with hieroglyphics? Doctors’ handwriting is, of course, one of ...

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The educational company Zaner-Bloser hosts an annual national handwriting contest. Each year one winner is chosen from kindergarten through 8th grade. Winners receive a $500 cash prize, a trophy, and ...

Rothman is managing editor at TIME. German children work on their handwriting, circa 1950. Rothman is managing editor at TIME. The pencil salesman’s lament will likely sound familiar: “Penmanship,” he ...