LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The pen may not be as mighty as the keyboard these days, but California and a handful of states are not giving up on handwriting entirely. Bucking a growing trend of eliminating ...

As an autograph collector, I’ve always found it fascinating to compare athlete signatures. The “half moons” that Mickey Mantle incorporated into his moniker later in life are legendary. The sweeping ...

"By the time kids get to my fifth-grade class, some of them don't know how to do their signature in cursive," said Quattrucci, a 29-year teaching veteran. "They know how to print their name in block ...

When given the opportunity to read the Declaration of Independence or the Bill of Rights, many local students would have as hard a time deciphering the documents as if they were written in Egyptian ...

Kids can text on tiny keyboards, convey their thoughts in 140 characters or less and use numbers for prepositions, but some states fear they soon may not be able to sign their own names. In this ...

Frustrated yet again, I tore the gold-embossed stationery in two, crumpled both halves together in my hand, and watched as the paper ball sailed five feet through the air before landing with a soft ...

The Firehouse Art Center in Longmont is offering an exhibit of fiber art this month, and if you walk in knowing nothing about the show, the work won’t strike you at first for what it is. The 28, ...

I write in cursive. I’m sorry to all my classmates who had to partner with me for physical worksheets for making our assignments half illegible to them. When I was in the third grade, I was taught ...

Cursive handwriting is often described as a lost art. So why not teach it in art class? That’s exactly what one Ohio school district plans to do. At a time when some states are dropping cursive ...

(CBS) – Monday is National Handwriting Day, celebrated on the birthday of John Hancock. But nowadays, penmanship – especially cursive – is becoming a lost art. But some children are still using, and ...