Try a straightforward three-step strategy to help students get comfortable with exploring challenging reading assignments.

Hetty Roessingh receives funding from SSHRC. A Werklund School of Education Teaching and Learning Support Grant provided funding for the development of the resource discussed in this story. University ...

The poem “Hey Cursive,” by Lisa Roberts, is not only an ode to cursive but also a eulogy. This is the poem that opened “So Long, Cursive,” a discussion held by the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies ...

Most of us have heard the phrase: “You write like a doctor.” That means an individual’s penmanship is so sloppy that it’s difficult to read. Doctors have a reputation for poor penmanship but not to ...

I grew up in B.C. days—Before Computers. The closest thing I had to an iPad was an Etch-A-Sketch, which kept me entertained on many a family drive. Nowadays, it seems every four-year-old has a mobile ...

A pair of bills filed for the 2026 Legislative Session would mandate students from second to fifth grade to learn how to ...

University of Calgary provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of Calgary provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. Teaching connected-style handwriting, ...

It’s quaint to read how common it was in the late 1920s, when sound had just come to the movies, to assume it was just a fad. More than a few people thought films had been better without sound — that ...

Teaching students about logic gates is often done in two parts, once on the whiteboard for the theory, and again on the breadboard for the practice. [shurik179] wasn’t a fan of the abstraction between ...

PARENTS are not the only ones bemoaning the way so many schools have given up teaching children to write longhand. Researchers are also aware that more than mere pride in penmanship is lost when ...

Weston Kieschnick didn’t enter the world of education through a traditional route. In fact, he originally planned to pursue law enforcement on a federal level. But while participating in a ride-along ...