Children are texting, tapping and typing on keyboards more than ever, leaving less time to master handwriting. So will the three “T’s” replace a building block of education? It’s not likely. The ...

Most parents today likely learned to write first in print, then cursive and finally — maybe years after those skills were in place — on a computer. Today, with students as young as kindergarten ...

Parents the world over are concerned that touchscreen and tablet technology is negatively impacting children’s handwriting. But while some say that technology overuse will impact developing dexterity ...

P.J. Schwartz lives the life of a quintessential golden child. The Ridgewood fifth-grader is a straight-A student. He’s mature beyond his 11 years. He looks out for his two younger siblings and always ...

Valuable skill or hopelessly outdated? Educators are debating intensely how important it is to teach handwriting. Cursive writing is already disappearing from the curriculum in many schools — there’s ...

These days, students are often required to bring a device to school to access equitable education. But as they're increasingly using more and more technology, their handwriting is being affected. Some ...

In research conducted by Madigan et al. (2019), involving 2,441 children aged 24, 36, and 60 months (50.2 percent boys and 49.8 percent girls), the study reported that “[a]pproximately 98% of US ...

How do we learn to write? A Japanese study looked at the development of writing skills in Japanese first-grade students, and revealed aspects of handwriting development that have been largely ...