The Boston Pen People, a group of fountain pen enthusiasts, gathers quarterly to commune, write and celebrate the historical ...

NEW ORLEANS, LA (WVUE) - When it comes to writing, digital devices make it easy and fast. They even serve as the spelling police, and the convenience causes more and more people to nearly write off ...

Our ongoing series A More Perfect Union aims to show that what unites us as Americans is far greater than what divides us. In this installment, we look at the power of the written word. Common Core ...

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 ...

Imagine getting a baseball autographed. Reading the oil-stained recipe card for your grandma's legendary banana bread. Viewing the antiqued parchment of the original U.S. Declaration of Independence ...

Technology continues to simplify the exchange of information in general and for on the fly note-taking and sketching in particular. Some 50 years ago, the ballpoint pen became a popular and practical ...

From top left, Pam Davidson, Kathy Rotto, Gloria Box and Sue Standlee, all residents at Presbyterian Village North in Dallas, write to third-grade students in Karen Gunter's class at Good Shepherd ...

PARENTS are not the only ones bemoaning the way so many schools have given up teaching children to write longhand. Researchers are also aware that more than mere pride in penmanship is lost when ...

As school-age children increasingly rely solely on digital devices for remote- and in-class learning, many K-12 school systems around the world are phasing out cursive handwriting and no longer ...

Common Core educational standards no longer require students to learn cursive, but supporters of longhand writing refuse to let it die. Eleven states either require or encourage the teaching of ...