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 ...
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 ...
Lightning struck in New Jersey on Gov. Phil Murphy's final day in office. Progressives and conservatives alike jointly celebrated his signing S1783/A3865 into law, requiring that public schools teach ...
Educators in two upper Northumberland County school districts are ahead of the curve which some schools will be rounding to ...
A new bill in Minnesota aims to bring cursive handwriting back to elementary schools.
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.” ...
Education has been criticized in recent years — decades, really — for not teaching children how to think so much as teaching ...