The skill fell out of favor in schools, but states including Iowa are bringing it back and could see benefits, writes Shawn ...

Research suggests it may be possible to improve overall writing and reading through handwriting instruction.

To handwrite letters or spell words in print or cursive, students need to commit multiple aspects of each letter to memory. For example, if students handwrite the word “cat,” they need to know ...

PS. The postscript of any note is where you spill something new or tease what's ahead. That's how I'm envisioning the future ...

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 ...