Have you ever tried to read your physician’s prescriptions? Children increasingly print their writing because they don’t know cursive or theirs is simply unreadable. I have a middle-school grandson ...

Timothy De Shay of Covington, Ga., writes a letter of inspiration for his leadership class in Atlanta on Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. A new study examined the brain activity in students as they took notes ...

In today’s tech-dependent world of smartphones and laptops, it is not surprising that most kids are more comfortable using a keyboard than a pen. Many states in the US have dropped cursive writing ...

Typing may be faster than writing by hand, but it’s less stimulating for the brain, according to research published Friday in the journal Frontiers in Psychology. After recording the brain activity of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Typing may be faster than writing by hand, but it’s less stimulating for the brain, according to research published Friday in the ...

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