Students currently learn cursive between third and fifth grade. If House Bill 127 becomes law, students will begin learning ...

Known as House Bill 17, the legislation requires cursive handwriting to be taught in all Pennsylvania schools.

Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card, looked at it and said, “I can’t read cursive yet.” Then he handed it to me to read. If you have a child ...

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A new state law requires schools to begin teaching students the nuances of cursive handwriting.

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, ...

Known as House Bill 17, the legislation requires cursive handwriting to be taught in all Pennsylvania schools.

Recently enacted legislation now requires elementary schools to teach cursive at some point between first and sixth grades, which means that the diminishing skill will be revitalized for the next ...

As followers of education controversies know by now, the Common Core academic standards, soon to be carried out by 45 states, don't require the teaching of cursive handwriting. The curricular gap has ...

Cursive handwriting is alive in North Carolina’s elementary schools – five years after state lawmakers required that students be taught what some advocates feared was becoming a long lost art. A new ...

A few months ago, I pulled out a kids’ book for my seven-year-old to read to me. She opened the first page, shook her head ...

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