GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - How often do you use cursive? Probably not as often as you once did. The belief is that cursive started fading away once home computers became common. Since computers print ...

"Here, as in many countries, the general approach to teaching writing is based on tradition rather than on educational research that has proven benefits," says the professor. For generations, most ...

Handwriting requirements were cut from school curricula around the world. Now it’s looping back, riding on a wave of evidence.

When it comes to the ways people communicate, the writing is on the wall — and it isn’t handwriting. Each new generation relies less on pen and paper to put down words and more on keyboards and ...

"Today more and more I meet high school students who, though they can read, sometimes well and sometimes poorly, are ashamed whenever they are confronted with the need to sign a document." On the back ...

Cursive – the pinnacle of quick and elegant penmanship, or just fancy, antiquated squiggles? However you choose to describe it, students in Louisiana’s public and charter schools will get bigger doses ...

In response to a growing trend where public schools are dropping the teaching of cursive, I wrote a blog post defending the value of learning cursive. 1 The new Common Core standards, adopted by 45 ...

How badly does 15 minutes a day for one third-grade semester impact other subjects? Not much. Why all the controversy? My third-graders loved to practice handwriting because I always wrote short, ...