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 is making a comeback in Pennsylvania classrooms. A new state law now requires all schools to teach cursive. The program is meant to ...

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

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

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 ...

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.” ...

A new bill in Minnesota aims to bring cursive handwriting back to elementary schools.

WASHINGTONVILLE - Keyboarding vs. cursive writing. Welcome to the new generational divide. For many young people raised in the Internet age, script or cursive lettering has become almost as ...

It’s a familiar refrain. Parents lament that technology is turning good, legible handwriting into a lost art form for their kids. In response, lawmakers in state after state – particularly in the ...

Learning to write! For all of you reading this, it's probably been a long time since you bent over a double-line notebook and diligently tried to form letters in the given space, with the right size ...