The On Education column on Wednesday, about a recent increase in handwriting instruction in American classrooms, included an outdated reference to the college entrance examination that will now require students to write a 25-minute essay.
Linda Tulloch waited in vain for teachers at the North Street School, a public elementary school in Greenwich, Conn., to provide her son, Jack, now a fifth grader, with handwriting instruction.
Cursive handwriting instruction is disappearing.
I found that there are a few academics working in the field of early childhood education who are devoted to the importance of handwriting instruction.
Actually she told me last week she got lost, and later I found a note in her handbag in unidentifiable handwriting with instructions about travel to Greenwich.
On it, in his grandmother's handwriting, were instructions on how to find a record of the 1829 deed of sale, which he unearthed in the basement of the office of the Queens Registrar, in Jamaica.
Bomb-making instructions in his own handwriting was found in a file on his laptop.
The documents showed the peer issuing instructions, sometimes in his own handwriting, on how to run the company, the BBC said.
And how can I get an appointment?" For some grade-school children, occupational therapists are also filling the void left by schools, many of which no longer provide instruction on the mechanics of handwriting.
The thermostat, with its yellowing card of oblique instructions in my landlady's spiky handwriting, is bad enough.
