Teaching handwriting in elementary school is getting huge support from research in cognitive psychology and neuroscience. Some state legislatures are paying attention and mandating that handwriting be ...

Why? #1. Handwriting helps kids develop reading circuitry in their brains. If we want kids to learn to read, we should teach handwriting beginning in preschool. Brain scanning has demonstrated that ...

Thibault Asselborn worked his way through graduate school by teaching piano. As his students improved their finger dexterity and muscle memory, he discovered the same concepts that help or hinder a ...

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 ...

So these are interesting pointers to show that handwriting actually confers a very specific benefit in terms of cognitive processing, and I think we need to know much more about that, because we are ...

Apropos the report At last, handwriting of state doctors will undergo treatment (March 29, BM), the right age for learning good handwriting is during primary school. It may not be possible to change ...

Learning through the use of muscle memory is the reason students need to learn cursive handwriting. Think about how the whole body is used to learn to ride a bicycle and how quickly one learns to do ...

The third-grade students at St. Clare/St. Paul School placed their pencils on the lined paper, carefully and elegantly writing “Dear Santa” in cursive on Friday. Students at the Catholic school in ...

A generation of children who learned to write on screens is now going old school. Starting this year, California grade school students are required to learn cursive handwriting, after the skill had ...

Modesto City Schools are preparing to teach cursive this academic year, after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law requiring students to be taught cursive in elementary school as of Jan. 1, The Modesto Bee ...