Oscar Sanchez, a fifth-grader at Enders Elementary, works on his cursive handwriting on Thursday. The class is trying out an old-school handwriting curriculum to see how explicit cursive writing ...

I preach to my kids to expand their horizons and do things outside of their comfort zones, yet I have been happy behind a computer keyboard tapping out my thoughts and telling others’ stories for ...

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 ...

Brianna Bell is a writer based in Guelph, Ont. At the end of June, while students and teachers were packing up their bags and dreaming of summer vacation, Ontario’s Education Minister Stephen Lecce ...

The rise of typepads and keyboards is rewriting school curricula and raising questions about the value of old-fashioned penmanship. Some kids now sign their names in block letters. Jonathan Baskin ...

Years after it was omitted from the Common Core standards, some students are practicing cursive in clubs after school and in ...

Semi-ambidextrous Nicholas Cronquist rebelled against third-grade cursive lessons. “I remember I hated it and I told my teacher I thought it was dumb,” he says. Cronquist, now 26, eventually learned ...

While cursive has been relegated to nearly extinct tasks like writing thank-you cards and signing checks, rumors of its death may be exaggerated. The Common Core standards seemed to spell the end of ...

Traditional classroom teachings and tools would be requirements for Missouri schoolchildren if a bill succeeds in the state’s House of Representatives. The use of pencils, pens, paper workbooks and ...