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 ...

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 connection.

Typing engages fewer neural circuits, resulting in more passive cognitive engagement.” This context is helpful, but elementary teachers will also need to know how to teach it. Today’s veteran teachers ...

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

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fourth-grade student Mandela Jones practices writing in cursive at Longfellow Elementary School in Pasadena. (Christina House / ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pennsylvania is considering legislation that mandates cursive instruction in public schools. Angela Guthrie/iStock via Getty ...