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 ...

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

Students in second grade began a lesson on cursive writing without using paper or pencils. They stood up and started to ...

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 ...

The phenomenon of older guys getting together is even broader than writer Benjamin Cassidy describes (“A Curious Gathering of ...

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 ...

We need cursive in classrooms to preserve civic literacy for future generations. | Opinion ...

These states join about two dozen others that require cursive instruction, marking another victory in the war against Chromebooks and their pesky keyboards. Everyone seems happy about this development ...

Cursive writing, once pushed aside as schools prioritised digital skills, is staging a comeback in Georgia. Powers Ferry ...

Education has been criticized in recent years — decades, really — for not teaching children how to think so much as teaching ...

Daily Item, a CNHI newspaper. It does not necessarily reflect the opinion of The Tribune-Democrat. Pennsylvania students are about to join counterparts in more than two dozen states who will be ...