The curlicue letters of cursive handwriting, once considered a mainstay of American elementary education, have been slowly disappearing from classrooms for years. Now, with most states adopting ...

Summer vacation lasts roughly ten weeks. During that time, many kids experience a skill regression called the “summer slide.” ...

A University of the Basque Country study finds traditional pencil-and-paper methods superior for early literacy development.

These strategies help preschool and kindergarten students develop letter recognition, spatial awareness, and fine motor ...

Concerns over students not knowing how to form signatures has prompted one local group to question whether the state’s ...

If you have a child in the Philadelphia School District, chances are they have not been taught how to read or write cursive either. But cursive handwriting is making a comeback of sorts for K-8 ...

In cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a word are joined with connecting strokes, such as in a person’s signature. Cursive fell out of favor in U.S. schools over a decade ago.

A study authored by Northumbria University’s Lauren Hoult and published in the journal PLOS One showed that writing for positive reasons is good for you. Reporting on the study for Talker, Stephen ...

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