(CNN)-- "Will a simple handwritten note look like hieroglyphics to the next generation?" So wrote second-grade teacher Anthony McGrann on his Seattle-based education blog, Seconds. The post, which ...

A University of the Basque Country study finds traditional pencil-and-paper methods superior for early literacy development. Children who practiced writing unfamiliar letters manually significantly ...

Mrs. Davis, my fourth-grade teacher, taught me cursive 63 years ago. I remember her more than most of my teachers, I think, because of cursive. Cursive was hard, and boringly ...