There’s a lot one could write about Galileo, the Italian astronomer and physicist. But on a snowy Friday morning in December, during a lesson helping students draft essays about outer space, teacher ...

Learning Curve 2.0, from designer Jess Latham of Blue Vinyl Fonts, actually includes two similar fonts—one solid, one dashed—in both TrueType and OpenType formats. Both demonstrate the beautiful ...

It may sound archaic in today’s tech-centric classrooms, but researchers around the world are digging into the powerful effects of handwriting, revealing how the act of putting pen (or pencil) to ...

Should you be concerned about the current rage for keyboards in kindergarten to replace crayons, pencils, and paper? Are you worried if your third grader can’t write or read their name in cursive?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a world where digital devices are everywhere, it’s easy to wonder if handwriting still matters. We’ve all heard the argument ...

While writers may not feel it right away, something happens in the brain when you put pen to paper. Research studies have shown that writing by hand enhances electrical activity in the brain, memory, ...

Though writing by hand is increasingly being eclipsed by the ease of computers, a new study finds we shouldn't be so quick to throw away the pencils and paper: handwriting helps people learn certain ...