Victoria University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Many lament that the “good old days” when they were taught “the basics” at school have gone. When launching the National ...

Hetty Roessingh receives funding from SSHRC. A Werklund School of Education Teaching and Learning Support Grant provided funding for the development of the resource discussed in this story. University ...

Bring back the practice worksheets of yore, perfect that slant, and — please — loop those lowercase Ls and Gs. Just as phonics-based reading recently returned to favor after years of emphasizing whole ...

One month ago, on Jan. 23, this country celebrated National Penmanship Day. You wouldn’t know it. When I went to school in the 1950s, we had serious penmanship contests, with monetary or medallion ...

Patience Gozaydin, 7, a second grade student at Frankstown Elementary practices cursive writing Thursday in Ann Franco’s class. Mirror photo by Cynthia Wise The flow of motion from putting pencil to ...

Today is National Handwriting Day! When you think of handwriting, you may think of the way you write your name or your penmanship during notetaking but what about the way you write? In today’s time, ...

Bring back the practice worksheets of yore, perfect that slant, and — please — loop those lower case Ls and Gs. Just as phonics-based reading recently returned to favor after years of emphasizing ...

A student practices writing in cursive at St. Mark’s Lutheran School in Hacienda Heights, Calif.. Jae C. Hong AP file, 2012 Children in the Grand Canyon State will soon be writing A-r-i-z-o-n-a as one ...

Students from Northern Cass School visit with Bethany Retirement Living residents on Tuesday, March 17. The students have been in a special Cursive Writing Studio class at Northern Cass and have been ...

Twelve-year-old Sandi Chandee wants to be a doctor when she grows up. But that's not why she memorized one of the longest medical terms in the English language ...