Handwriting still has a place in the digital age, its proponents say, and they hoped that what they billed as a “summit” on the subject this week would spotlight their case for the enduring value of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most of us have heard the phrase: “You write like a doctor.” That means an individual’s penmanship is so sloppy that it’s difficult to read. Doctors have a reputation for poor penmanship but not to ...

Good handwriting is not an end in itself. Rather, it is a means to literacy that fundamentally transforms the human experience. Developing control over the shape of the 26 letters of the alphabet ...

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 ...

In the fall of 2014, a piece of news caused quite a stir in the education community. One of the societies most renowned for its quality educational environment, Finland, was going to eliminate the ...

When you teach writing, as I do, you tend to receive a lot of unsolicited advice from all over campus about how to do your job. I imagine that this is at least in part because all of us, in one ...

The Teaching of Writing Certificate is an 18-credit hour program and is designed specifically for teachers who are seeking additional expertise in the teaching of writing but do not wish to pursue a ...

When faculty collaborate in the classroom, students gain multiple perspectives on complex material while new academics learn the craft of teaching from more experienced colleagues ...