Cursive writing lessons will be back in Pennsylvania classrooms after state lawmakers passed legislation requiring its ...

Starting in the 1970s, and under the recent implementation of the Common Core, a former pillar of elementary education has been largely forgotten. But there’s a feeling that learning cursive still has ...

Adults may wince at painful childhood memories of penmanship lessons and spelling tests. A small but growing number of studies, though, suggest that systematically teaching handwriting and spelling ...

Most of us remember spending years of school learning how to write, first tracing letters, then writing our names and eventually progressing to cursive. But as technology has taken over, that ...

Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why. The flowing ...

Young learners have a few key milestones they reach—there’s learning to read, figuring out the basics of math, and writing out the letters of the alphabet. The first time you were able to write your ...

When was the last time you opened your mailbox to find a beautifully handwritten letter? Probably not in the last week, or even decade. That might not be a good thing. New research shows that dropping ...