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 ...

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 ...

In January, San Jose State University announced a partnership with Udacity, a for-profit provider of online education. The first courses offered by “San Jose State University Plus” will be two ...

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 ...

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 ...

"I was kinda lost when I first started," concedes Colleen Heyboer, who teaches at Alger Middle School in Grand Rapids. Students weren't exactly glued to her every word after she handed them a thick, ...

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 ...