Developmentally progressive instruction allows children to learn handwriting. An open-educational resource by literacy and writing experts supports instruction for kindergarten to Grade 3 children.

Students' reading and writing suffer when they don't learn script. Why Students Need to Know Cursive Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card ...

The trick to improve your handwriting as an adult is to pinpoint your difficulties in the first place. And then practice, practice, practice.

Whether it's required or not, cursive is fast becoming a lost art as schools increasingly replace pen and paper with classroom computers and instruction is increasingly geared to academic subjects ...

In California, a new law will require all students there to learn cursive handwriting — a skill that had been mandatory for generations, but started to fall by the wayside in the digital age.

After her son died, State Rep. Brenda Carter (D-Pontiac) was sorting through some of the things that her son left behind, besides a whole lot of broken hearts, and came across a letter that he had ...

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Kids are spending more time on computers, phones and keyboards, and they are losing the ability to do the cursive handwriting that children have done for generations. "I never ...

People often credit my good handwriting to my Catholic school education—like a nun with a ruler and a taste for corporal ...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (WBMA) - With tablets and laptops increasingly popular in the classroom, students are using pen and paper less often. Many of them now say they don't know how to write in ...

From the beautiful ornate script we associate with days gone by to the rise of texting—handwriting has come a long way in the past century.

California’s new commitment to teaching cursive handwriting in classrooms will help improve overall students cognition across subjects.