As Ohio considers reintroducing cursive writing in schools, podcast discussion reveals skepticism about claimed cognitive ...

Nimah Gobir: She discovered that handwriting is an essential part of learning language. Writing by hand strengthens letter recognition and supports memory and recall—especially when taught alongside ...

The Ohio Department of Education and Workforce recently updated its five-year-old guidance for school districts that want to ...

van der Meer, "Our results imply that the visual and motor input acquired through precise hand movements during handwriting ...

A recent study from the University of Stavanger has found that around 40 percent of Gen Zers are losing their grip on handwritten communication, a skill that’s ...

Imagine a time when children can’t read historical documents. Young adults can barely conjure a driver’s license signature.

A 2020 study in Frontiers in Psychology found that handwriting activates regions of the brain associated with learning and creativity in ways typing doesn’t. “When we write by hand ...

It was as though our handwriting was moving from day to night, changing and moving as fast as we were. You’d think we would have appreciated learning a way of writing that was more like us — a ...

This is because handwriting engages the brain in a more active way than typing, which is better for learning. Students who take notes by hand use more shorthand, visual signals (for example ...