Philip Potempa , (219) 852-4327 Sep 20, 2015 Sep 20, 2015Updated Oct 14, 2024 0 1 of 10 Luanne Grisafi, a second-grade teacher at Our Lady of Grace Elementary School in Highland, demonstrates the ...

Welcome to Camp HandRIGHTing Ink., a place to mind one’s p’s and q’s and other details of proper penmanship. Yes, this is a place for children to practice putting pencil to paper — something that has ...

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,” ...

It wasn’t by her virtuosity with the violin, her prowess at piano, her skill on the softball field or even the good grades she earned at Penn View Christian School in Montgomery County that ...

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 ...

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.

At Greenwich Country Day, a prestigious Connecticut private school, computers have all but replaced pencil and paper. Typing instruction starts in second grade, and laptops are mandatory by seventh.