In today’s classrooms, pens and exercise books are increasingly having to make way for screens and keyboards. Does technology help pupils write as efficiently?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Generation gaps are real. What is viewed as completely normal and expected by one generation can have a very different reaction by ...

“I like how my pencil feels on the paper when I write it,” Evi said from her classroom at Mary Queen of Apostles in New Kensington. “It’s very loopy.” Evi and her classmates are learning the art of ...

Students in second grade began a lesson on cursive writing without using paper or pencils. They stood up and started to ...

Should you be concerned about the current rage for keyboards in kindergarten to replace crayons, pencils, and paper? Are you worried if your third grader can’t write or read their name in cursive?

Pennsylvania has enshrined cursive into its school curriculum. Why it matters: Spending valuable class time teaching students to put pen to paper is a growing nationwide trend, despite students using ...

Concerns over students not knowing how to form signatures has prompted one local group to question whether the state’s cursive requirement is worth the paper it’s written on. Julie Anderson, ...

Each of the 15 students in Mollie Sweeney’s third grade class raised their dominant hand. Sweeney, a teacher at Burrell’s Bon Air Elementary, then walked through the motions of how to write a ...

The research led by Dr. Anabela Malpique, senior lecturer in literacy from the School of Education at Edith Cowan University (ECU), in collaboration with colleagues from the Writing for All research ...

Generation gaps are real. What is viewed as completely normal and expected by one generation can have a very different reaction by another generation. The clothes we wear, the words we use, the way we ...