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

It makes documents poetic. It strengthens hand-eye coordination. And, hundreds of years ago, “it was a mark of an educated person.” That’s how Sen. Ann Rest, DFL-New Hope, described cursive ...

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 ...

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 ...

The flow of motion from putting pencil to paper and writing in cursive strengthens cognitive development and fosters fine ...

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 ...

Pennsylvania schools are required to teach cursive handwriting under a new state law. While some area school districts are ...

State Representative Dane Watro, one of the cosponsors of the Pennsylvania bill, argues that cursive “connects us to our history, strengthens learning and deepens our understanding of the world.” ...

You'll notice cursive is coming back to classrooms after Pennsylvania's new law requires schools to teach it again, and that change affects learners, parents, and educators across the state. This law ...

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