RALEIGH, N.C.—Across North Carolina and in dozens of other states, teachers are committing what once would have been heresy: They are writing off cursive script ... way of the quill pen ...

A.J. Jacobs has been writing with an old-fashioned quill for a year. He argues they allow for slower, more contemplative thinking. Writer A.J. Jacobs wrote his manuscript using a quill and ink ...

But as schools go high-tech, the move may spell the end for cursive writing. The Common Core ... is a legacy from when writers actually used quill pens. “Those quill pens had a nib ...

Supposedly developed to preserve fragile quill pens, the writing has become scarcer in the United States in recent years. But even as its popularity wanes, science has good news for script's ...

EMPIRICAL: Empirical was recently awarded a $200,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a platform for web-based writing activities. The non-profit is the developer of Quill, a ...