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 ...

In years gone by, it helped distinguish the literate from the illiterate. But now, in the digital age, people are increasingly communicating by computer and smartphone. No handwritten signature ...

The marvelous penmanship of both F. Leland Watkins and his son F. Leland Jr., of the Dakota Business College, Fargo, continues to bring comments to Neighbors. And in one case, a copy of a drawing by ...

Just when we think traditional education is being tossed into the school trash bin, we get reminded that some of the old ways still actually work. Social studies and civics are being restored to ...

Browsing a folder in which some first-grade elementary school report cards were stored, I noticed receiving an “A” for an activity seldom offered today: penmanship. Teachers instilled pride in ...

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The pencil salesman’s lament will likely sound familiar: “Penmanship,” he complained, “is sort of dying out.” In today’s texting, typing world, worry about the “dying art” of handwriting is a common ...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — He's a veteran physician who works as a trauma surgeon. Just don't ask Dr. Sheldon Brotman to write a legible prescription. That's why he's here, sitting in a handwriting ...