Each of the 15 students in Mollie Sweeney’s third grade class raised their dominant hand. Sweeney, a teacher at Burrell’s Bon ...

As the world rapidly moves away from the need to write information by hand, there are still many U.S. states still teaching cursive instruction to American children. California and New Hampshire ...

A couple in Indiana developed a free writing academy to help young people learn how to write and read cursive handwriting.Twice a week, Terrell and Chelsea Wittington teach young students how to write ...

Pennsylvania just passed a law making teaching cursive writing to be done in schools. Cursive writing is important because signing a check or any other document the person needs to write their name.

Gov. Josh Shapiro signed House Bill 17 on Wednesday, making cursive instruction mandatory in all Pennsylvania public 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 ...

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

Pennsylvania schools are required to teach cursive handwriting under a new law.

Gov. Shapiro signs a law reintroducing cursive writing in classrooms. Supports say it might bring cognitive benefits to ...

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, ...

Then-third-grader Logan Gibson receives help from a classmate while learning the cursive alphabet at White Lick Elementary School in Brownsburg, Ind., on April 22, 2011. The reading and writing of ...