New Jersey and Pennsylvania are among the most recent states to require schools to teach kids old fashioned handwriting ...

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 ...

In addition to learning to sign their name or read greeting cards from grandparents, children practicing cursive writing hone fine motor skills. Writing vocabulary and spelling words helps children ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pennsylvania schools are required to teach cursive handwriting under a new law. Gov. Josh Shapiro announced on social media Wednesday that, using his "best cursive," he signed House Bill 17 into law. ...

The flow of motion from putting pencil to paper and writing in cursive strengthens cognitive development and fosters fine ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro on Wednesday signed a bill that will require a cursive handwriting curriculum in all Pennsylvania public schools. “I’m definitely rusty, but I think my penmanship was okay!” Shapiro ...

Cursive writing lessons will be back in Pennsylvania classrooms after state lawmakers passed legislation requiring its ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Cursive writing is a skill many of us learned growing up, but it's unfortunately not part of the mandatory curriculum in Michigan. As a result, many children are missing out on ...

You'll notice cursive is coming back to classrooms after Pennsylvania's new law requires schools to teach it again, and that change affects learners, parents, and educators across the state. This law ...

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