Unlike probably most people, I enjoy the act of writing by hand — but I’ve always disliked signing my name. Why is that? I think it’s because signatures are supposed to be in cursive, or else they don ...

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 ...

Question: We have just moved to a new school district where my youngest child started school this year. My son is not doing any kind of printing like I expected. His writing is slanted and looks a lot ...

For now, the traditional circle-and-stick style of handwriting is a thing of the past in at least three of Seminole County’s 25 elementary schools. In those schools, students in kindergarten, and ...

Unlike probably most people, I enjoy the act of writing by hand — but I’ve always disliked signing my name. Why is that? I think it’s because signatures are supposed to be in cursive, or else they don ...

The loops and curls of cursive handwriting have all but vanished from college essay exam blue books. On rare occasions when college students write by hand, nearly all of them use what educators call ...

PHOENIX — With eyebrows furrowed and fingers holding pencils in clawlike grips, third graders at Lowell Elementary School in Mesa were tackling an assignment involving one of the most controversial ...