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

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In addition to learning to sign their name or read greeting cards from grandparents, children practicing cursive writing hone ...

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 ...

Cursive writing lessons were once mandatory in schools. Many adults can remember cursive writing lessons on lined paper and time spent practicing this aesthetically appealing style of writing. But ...

As the new school year begins, all those little hands in elementary school are once again at the center of a fierce debate: Is cursive writing a skill that’s still worth teaching, or an out-of-date ...

Starting in the 1970s, and under the recent implementation of the Common Core, a former pillar of elementary education has been largely forgotten. But there’s a feeling that learning cursive still has ...

Act 2 of 2026 requires cursive handwriting to be taught at Pennsylvania public and private schools. Pennsylvania will join 18 other states requiring cursive to be taught in school.

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

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- It used to be a standard part of elementary school, but today cursive writing instruction is optional. A bill submitted in Olympia would make cursive mandatory in Washington schools.

State-mandated cursive writing lessons were among the casualties of the pandemic in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools last year, a new state report says. In 2013, the North Carolina General Assembly ...

The writing may be on the wall for something that used to be standard fare in our elementary schools. It turns out that the elegant script of cursive handwriting is barely being taught anymore. The ...