New Jersey and Pennsylvania are among the most recent states to require schools to teach kids old fashioned handwriting ...
A new bill in Minnesota proposes to reintroduce cursive handwriting in elementary schools. The bill mandates the Commissioner ...
Pennsylvania students will soon join a growing number of their peers nationwide practicing the looping, connected script of ...
In addition to learning to sign their name or read greeting cards from grandparents, children practicing cursive writing hone ...
It makes documents poetic. It strengthens hand-eye coordination. And, hundreds of years ago, “it was a mark of an educated ...
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 ...
Gov. Phil Murphy signed legislation mandating cursive instruction in New Jersey schools. Was it really worth it?
When states in 2010 introduced the Common Core State Standards, which didn’t include cursive writing, most schools abandoned ...
The flow of motion from putting pencil to paper and writing in cursive strengthens cognitive development and fosters fine ...
A Pennsylvania lawmaker has proposed legislation requiring cursive handwriting instruction in public and private elementary schools. Supporters argue cursive writing has cognitive and developmental ...
State Representative Dane Watro, one of the cosponsors of the Pennsylvania bill, argues that cursive “connects us to our ...
Shapiro signs bill that requires teaching cursive writing in schools ...