Handwriting still has a place in the digital age, its proponents say, and they hoped that what they billed as a “summit” on the subject this week would spotlight their case for the enduring value of ...

Young learners have a few key milestones they reach—there’s learning to read, figuring out the basics of math, and writing out the letters of the alphabet. The first time you were able to write your ...

Cursive loyalists lament the loss of cursive teaching in schools. WSJ's Andy Jordan reports from San Francisco. RALEIGH, N.C.—Across North Carolina and in dozens of other states, teachers are ...

The article “Experts Fear Handwriting Will Become a Lost Art,” (Jan. 25, 2012) reported that while experts fear handwriting is becoming a lost art, a summit was held in Washington, D.C., to make a ...

Most of us have heard the phrase: “You write like a doctor.” That means an individual’s penmanship is so sloppy that it’s difficult to read. Doctors have a reputation for poor penmanship but not to ...

When you teach writing, as I do, you tend to receive a lot of unsolicited advice from all over campus about how to do your job. I imagine that this is at least in part because all of us, in one ...

Teaching Writing is designed for K-12 teachers, paraprofessionals, instructional coaches, and other school-based educators. Building on the research of Professor Emerita Maria Brisk, the workshop ...

In the fall of 2014, a piece of news caused quite a stir in the education community. One of the societies most renowned for its quality educational environment, Finland, was going to eliminate the ...

University of Leeds provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. Schools in Finland, it has been reported, are phasing out the teaching of handwriting skills, a claim that has led to ...

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 ...

One of my favorite memories of eighth grade was watching a classmate handwrite the next day's assignments on a chalk board. The different styles of writing and joining the letters together is almost ...