New Jersey and Pennsylvania are among the most recent states to require schools to teach kids old fashioned handwriting ...

Each of the 15 students in Mollie Sweeney’s third grade class raised their dominant hand. Sweeney, a teacher at Burrell’s Bon Air Elementary, then walked through the motions of how to write a ...

Pennsylvania students will soon join a growing number of their peers nationwide practicing the looping, connected script of cursive writing—part of a broader national revival of the once-standard ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro signed a law returning cursive handwriting to Pennsylvania elementary schools. We asked what you thought.

When states in 2010 introduced the Common Core State Standards, which didn’t include cursive writing, most schools abandoned the flowy form of writing altogether. But cursive has begun making a ...

(TNS) — The Times asked readers for samples of their cursive and to talk about their relationship with old-fashioned, longhand writing with its loops, curls and dips. A new law will require all ...

Pennsylvania has enshrined cursive into its school curriculum. Why it matters: Spending valuable class time teaching students ...

A Minnesota senator is pushing a bill to require cursive handwriting in schools, citing cognitive benefits and historical connection.

Sometimes, Harrisburg surprises us by doing something simple, sensible and even bipartisan. That happened recently when the Legislature OK’d a bill making it mandatory to teach cursive writing again ...

Starting April 12, all public and private schools in Pennsylvania must reintroduce cursive handwriting into their curriculum.

To the editor: As a 77-year-old who won my school’s penmanship competition in fourth grade, I’m pretty happy that California kids will be learning cursive handwriting. (“Learning cursive in school, ...