Not of General Interest

[Sorry! I was trying to get rid of a dead link in this old post and it posted as a new one.]    The Washington Post has an article, "Th...

The New York Times reports that cursive handwriting is making a comeback, and the headline is this: "Cursive Seemed to Go the Way of ...

Figure 1. Thoreau could walk around Walden Pond  with a notebook and a pencil he made himself. He knew that the hand  was connected to t...

Figure 1. You can read this, right? In "Handwriting Just Doesn't Matter," a clickbait-y title that considerably overstate...

I know I've talked about the cursive debate too much, but this time I'm intrigued with a difference in reporting. " Is Cursiv...

The New York Times has weighed in with one of my minor obsessions , cursive handwriting and poses (not, for the love of God, begs ) this q...

Tenured Radical has a good post up about one of my favorite topics, handwriting ; she'd like to know (1) the reason behind the poor han...

Apparently Indiana has abolished the teaching of handwriting (cursive, I think, though the articles don't say) in favor of more typing. ...

Figure 1. This signature of Treasury Secretary Jack Lew looks a lot like that of many job applicants. The Huffington Post reports that ...

The New York Times Magazine has an article about middle-school students using the Livescribe pen (used to be Pulse Pen) in class. Short vers...

Over at University Diaries, Margaret Soltan quotes from a newspaper opinion piece by Robert Duffley: My loudest complaint is the impersonali...

Time Magazine, which I've been checking out of desperation as Newsweek becomes increasingly newsless, has one of its trademark scare ar...

There's something strangely retro about these news items: From the Pew Charitable Trust's report "Writing, Technology, and Teen...