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

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

In addition to learning to sign their name or read greeting cards from grandparents, children practicing cursive writing hone ...

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. Phil Murphy signed legislation mandating cursive instruction in New Jersey schools. Was it really worth it?

Pennsylvania is joining about 25 other states — including Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware — in requiring ...

Pennsylvania schools are required to teach cursive handwriting under a new law. Gov. Josh Shapiro announced on social media Wednesday that, using his "best cursive," he signed House Bill 17 into law. ...

The flow of motion from putting pencil to paper and writing in cursive strengthens cognitive development and fosters fine motor skills, according to Travis Lee, Huntingdon Area School District’s ...

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 ...

Cursive writing lessons will be back in Pennsylvania classrooms after state lawmakers passed legislation requiring its ...

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 ...