Just how long have humans been using cursive writing? Scholars credit Niccolo Niccoli, a 15th Century Italian, for “inventing” our modern-day cursive, although it had been evolving long before his day ...

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 ...

For now, the traditional circle-and-stick style of handwriting is a thing of the past in at least three of Seminole County’s 25 elementary schools. In those schools, students in kindergarten, and ...

Starting in the 1970s, and under the recent implementation of the Common Core, a former pillar of elementary education has been largely forgotten. But there’s a feeling that learning cursive still has ...