Learning works best when it feels reachable and uncomplicated. Children are more likely to engage when activities are easy to start, simple to follow, and flexible enough to fit different learning ...

Sherisse Kenerson stood in the front of her classroom Thursday afternoon at Holmes Middle School in Lincolnia, Virginia, and explained how to write the letters “M” and “N” in cursive. Then, she had ...

Even in a world where computers and online learning have become paramount in education, Pennsylvania lawmakers could be adding an old-fashioned wrinkle to student development: cursive handwriting. "In ...

Though it's considered an art, cursive writing can do wonders for your handwriting. Practicing cursive improves the look of writing to a great extent and also improves cognitive skills and motor ...

After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters in ...

win last year, her interest has deepened. Lately, she has adopted a new habit of pilsa which is the practice of writing passages from books by hand. “Just reading a book and moving on didn’t feel like ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Cursive writing is a skill many of us learned growing up, but it's unfortunately not part of the mandatory curriculum in Michigan. As a result, many children are missing out on ...

Because you are reading this in typeface (or maybe even listening to this in an audio format), cursive probably isn’t even on your radar. Who writes in cursive anymore? Maybe to sign checks or ...

When I arrived at the beginning of the school year, I was pleased to find that my predecessor had left the classroom well-stocked with all kinds of supplies, some that I had never used. That was the ...

Researchers may have deciphered the oldest known scrap of alphabetic writing yet discovered, and it may be a nearly 4,500-year-old gift tag. A clay cylinder found in a tomb holding six skeletons in ...

Washington College in Maryland became the butt of the joke on late night TV last month after it changed its logo—George Washington’s cursive signature—because it was “difficult to read and not ...