Teaching handwriting in elementary school is getting huge support from research in cognitive psychology and neuroscience. Some state legislatures are paying attention and mandating that handwriting be ...

Writing instruction in early education should be about more than letter formation and penmanship, argue researchers who found preschool teachers don't often encourage writing for communication ...

Q. I read with interest your letter about the parents trying to recover the cost of their son’s broken glasses from the parents of the bully who purposely broke them. I had a similar experience when ...

Cursive handwriting lessons, dropped by some Aurora public schools, will once again return to the classroom next school year. The handwriting instruction will be necessary for students to be able to ...

Laura Dinehart, an assistant professor of early childhood education at Florida International University, was pretty sure that preschoolers’ development of fine motor skills—such as ...

The monkey tail is dead. It sounds morbid and sad, but there is no mourning here in Kristi Burton’s first-grade classroom at Duffy School. Teacher and students have moved on. The D’Nealian alphabet’s ...

In a century-old brick building here in the capital city’s northwest corner, 3- and 4-year-olds are taught in “studios” by an architect, an author, a choreographer, a filmmaker, and an array of ...

CARLA RIVERA — For the past two weeks, Grace and Tess Heagy have bounded out of bed each morning anxious for camp, where they sing, paint, dance and practice their penmanship. Penmanship? At ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- If cursive writing is a lost art, Debbie Younger may be the modern-day “Indiana Jones" of penmanship. The Fountain grandmother is on a new crusade to bring back ...