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 ...

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 ...

Recently, a new manuscript alphabet has been developed. The new alphabet was designed to facilitate transition from manuscript to cursive handwriting. This study compared cursive handwriting samples ...

FLUSHING, Michigan — A capital letter P is made with a straight line and a small curve — at least that’s how Flushing students are being taught this year with a new program. Handwriting Without Tears ...

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 ...

I recently read in an article in AARP, which gives you an idea of what generation I belong to, that four states have dropped handwriting as an educational requirement. Elizabeth Wooley must be turning ...