You default to typing because it’s faster, more convenient, and digitally organized. But what if speed is costing you something, cognitively? While typing prioritizes efficiency, handwriting engages ...

Like it or not, cursive writing is returning to countless classrooms. At least half of the nation’s states have adopted policies requiring cursive writing instruction in recent years. That reverses a ...

Cursive handwriting is making a big comeback in schools for students of the Gen Alpha generation (born between 2010 and 2025). New Jersey and Pennsylvania are the most recent in a growing number of ...

Years after it was omitted from the Common Core standards, some students are practicing cursive in clubs after school and in libraries. Some states are bringing it back to classrooms. Credit ...

For anyone looking to keep their mind sharp with age, science offers an unexpectedly low-tech suggestion: pick up a pen. A review of brain imaging studies found that handwriting activates a broader ...

In classrooms, offices and even homes, keyboards and touchscreens are steadily replacing pens and paper. But research has shown that handwriting changes the way our brains learn in ways that typing ...