This basic life skill was phased out in 2010 with the introduction of the controversial Common Core curriculum — and our ...

Professor Audrey van der Meer at NTNU believes that national guidelines should be put into place to ensure that children receive at least a minimum of handwriting training. Results from several ...

Many students aren't learning spelling and writing skills in school. Parents can help, but there are limits to what they can do. Especially during remote learning, parents are discovering their kids ...

New Jersey is bringing cursive back to schools. According to a new bill, all third, fourth, and fifth-grade students in the ...

If you're like many digitally savvy Americans, it has likely been a while since you've spent much time writing by hand. The laborious process of tracing out our thoughts, letter by letter, on the page ...

University of Toronto provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of Toronto provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. Teachers have fewer opportunities to ...

Learning to read and write is hard. Most schools make it even harder by asking students to read and write about topics they know little or nothing about. Education expert Dylan Wiliam has said (or at ...

Sinéad McCauley Lambe is the author of Move Write - A Whole-body Sensorimotor Approach to Handwriting programme. Move Write is published by Just Rewards Publications. It’s a milestone that leaves ...

In 1873, the debut of the Remington typewriter radically altered how people could communicate thoughts. Today, kids tap keyboards and phones but rarely, if ever, write by hand-- even a thank-you card.

Ms. Anderson and Ms. Winthrop are the authors of “The Disengaged Teen: Helping Kids Learn Better, Feel Better, and Live Better.” As the new school year gets underway, artificial intelligence is ...