As I was taking notes for this column, I thought it fitting to write them in cursive, a skill I spent many hours mastering ...

If we are serious about improving outcomes, we must strengthen every foundational literacy skill, including handwriting.

On the final day of his term, former Governor Phil Murphy signed into law a bill requiring public schools to teach cursive handwriting. Beginning in the 2026-2027 school year, students in grades three ...

Cursive survives in select Minnesota schools but isn’t required teaching. Some lawmakers now want to mandate it, as more than half of states have already done.

A sprawling 1800s equestrian farm on the market in Butler County has something most homes don’t — original letters penned by ...

Cursive handwriting is making a big comeback in schools for students of the Gen Alpha generation (born between 2010 and 2025). New Jersey and Pennsylvania are the most recent in a growing number of ...

Many people of a certain age remember practicing loops and waves, moving our small hands clutching pencils across pages with light blue dotted and solid lines. But in many schools, that elementary ...

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 ...

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 ...

The phenomenon of older guys getting together is even broader than writer Benjamin Cassidy describes (“A Curious Gathering of Dull Men,” January 25). There is also a national informal group, Retired ...

The Osterhout Free Library in Wilkes-Barre can help with research. Times Leader file photo Library members browse the bookshelves and computers at the Osterhout Free Library in Wilkes-Barre. Library ...

Pennsylvania has enacted a new law requiring elementary schools to teach cursive handwriting. Pennsylvania joins about 25 other states that have similar cursive instruction requirements. Supporters ...