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 ...

PARAMUS, N.J., April 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Savvas Learning Company, a K-12 next-generation learning solutions leader, is excited to announce that its highly popular D’Nealian(R) Handwriting ...

Question: We have just moved to a new school district where my youngest child started school this year. My son is not doing any kind of printing like I expected. His writing is slanted and looks a lot ...

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 ...

The loops and curls of cursive handwriting have all but vanished from college essay exam blue books. On rare occasions when college students write by hand, nearly all of them use what educators call ...

There are a lot of things about Common Core not to like, but perhaps the most viscerally unlikeable tenant of this leviathan educational system is the effort to eliminate cursive from elementary ...

Every day students in Shannon Fields' fourth-grade class get a 15-minute cursive lesson. "Loop high, pull down, swing over, anchor off," Fields instructs his students at Dickson Elementary as they ...