The high-tech appeal of computers may win over today’s children, who prefer a keyboard and screen to a pen and paper. But in Virginia Keller’s first-grade classroom at Reynolds Elementary School in ...

Sixth-graders in Linda Op de Beeck’s classroom at Barton Elementary School in Anaheim must complete all their homework assignments on computers. The result, she says, is neater and easier to grade.

On a recent afternoon at Windsor Elementary School in Isle of Wight County, Shannon Spain showed her third-graders that a cursive “l” looks like a tall cursive “e.” “Get out your magic air writers,” ...

A private school in Rocky Mount is churning out first-graders with some of the best handwriting in the state. Alex Kurpinsky can be called the prince of proper penmanship. He knows when it looks right ...