Today's schoolchildren get about one-fourth the handwriting instruction their parents got, and many never learn cursive at all, thanks to the rise of computers and new education guidelines that ...

As recently as a half-century ago, young American students would spend many lessons writing curved loops and diagonal lines, as they learned how to write in cursive. Over the years, though, computer ...

As a kid, you must have done lots of cursive writing at school. It is not just needed for improving the handwriting but even helps students to get the flow and speed of writing sentences. So, as an ...

I grew up in B.C. days—Before Computers. The closest thing I had to an iPad was an Etch-A-Sketch, which kept me entertained on many a family drive. Nowadays, it seems every four-year-old has a mobile ...

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Happy National Handwriting Day, everyone! Or rather, unhappy and hotly controversial handwriting day? That would honestly be more accurate. Because, for one thing, isn’t teaching handwriting somewhat ...

Handwriting may seem like a simple everyday skill, but for children, it plays a powerful role in shaping cognitive development. In a world dominated by screens and typing, teaching kids to write ...

Tell us if this sounds familiar. Your child has plenty of creative ideas and knows the answers to most of the questions during the examination, but when it comes to writing them down on a piece of ...

I grew up in B.C. days—Before Computers. The closest thing I had to an iPad was an Etch-A-Sketch, which kept me entertained on many a family drive. Nowadays, it seems every four-year-old has a mobile ...

Even in the age of the Blackberry and the computer keyboard, educators are aiming to improve kids' handwriting in the belief it will make them better students, writes Newsweek’s Raina Kelley. The ...