These days, we type more than we write. Letters to friends, school papers, work reports, your favorite source for fun and uplifting news, and even shopping and to-do lists are done more and more by ...

At Greenwich Country Day, a prestigious Connecticut private school, computers have all but replaced pencil and paper. Typing instruction starts in second grade, and laptops are mandatory by seventh.

The high-tech appeal of computers may win over today’s children, who prefer a keyboard and screen to a pen and paper. But in Virginia Keller’s first-grade classroom at Reynolds Elementary School in ...

In the computer age, it might seem as though proper penmanship is becoming less important with each passing day. Yet sloppy handwriting can hurt students' academic performance, from their class grades ...

Will cursive go the way of the abacus? Elementary school teachers are worried about the lack of attention proper penmanship is receiving in today’s lesson plans, the Augusta Chronicle reports. “It’s ...

On a recent afternoon at Windsor Elementary School in Isle of Wight County, Shannon Spain showed her third-graders that a cursive “l” looks like a tall cursive “e.” “Get out your magic air writers,” ...