Many education centers stopped teaching handwriting in 2010 with the Common Core State Standards initiative, which prioritized math and reading over cursive as they felt it was irrelevant compared ...

A common core of subjects was arrived at, but handwriting was left out. Schools stopped teaching handwriting, and likewise, by 2011 teaching colleges stopped teaching teachers how to teach ...

Happy National Handwriting Day, everyone! Or rather, unhappy and hotly controversial handwriting day? That would honestly be more accurate. Because, for one thing, isn't teaching handwriting ...

During our conversation on December 18, 2018, which has been edited for length and clarity, I asked McKamey to reflect on some of the most important lessons she’s learned about teaching writing.

The benefits of teaching cursive handwriting could help prepare the labor force of tomorrow. This, unfortunately, is only half the problem.

Will handwriting — the most personal, fundamental tool of correspondence — become a lost art? Cavanaugh worries that it will. So does Burton. On Facebook, Zaner-Bloser Handwriting has about 75 ...

The New Script for Teaching Handwriting Is No Script at All Cursive Goes the Way of 'See Spot Run' In Many Classrooms, Delighting Students By Valerie Bauerlein Jan. 30, 2013 10:31 pm ET ...

Handwriting is alive and well at my school and others where instructional practice is informed by the research and supported by a comprehensive professional-development program that includes ...

When Jack Lew was nominated to be Treasury secretary in 2013, President Barack Obama joked that as a condition of the appointment, Lew would have to learn to sign his name more legibly. The secreta… ...

From the beautiful ornate script we associate with days gone by to the rise of texting—handwriting has come a long way in the past century.