This spring, a sample of Baune’s cursive earned him Grand National Champion honors in the Zaner-Bloser National Handwriting Contest. Baune, a fourth-grade student at Red Rock Central Elementary ...

In 2012, handwriting teachers were surveyed at a conference hosted by Zaner-Bloser, a publisher of cursive textbooks. Only 37 percent wrote in cursive; another 8 percent printed.

I was kind of speechless.” Zaner-Bloser, a company that publishes handwriting and other educational programs, holds the National Handwriting Contest for students in grades K-6.

INSKEEP: The Zaner-Bloser National Handwriting Competition has been going on for 30 years, 30 years in which handwriting has come to seem a lot less important to a lot of people.

BALTIMORE (WBFF) — Freya Mojica, a student at St. Joseph School-Fullerton, was selected the 6th-grade grand national champion in the 32nd annual Zaner-Bloser National Handwriting Contest.