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

“Research has shown that cursive handwriting enhances a child’s brain development, including memorization, and improves fine motor skills,” said California lawmaker Sharon Quirk-Silva, lead sponsor of ...

Pennsylvania has enshrined cursive into its school curriculum. Why it matters: Spending valuable class time teaching students ...

Sometimes, Harrisburg surprises us by doing something simple, sensible and even bipartisan. That happened recently when the Legislature OK’d a bill making it mandatory to teach cursive writing again ...

Several states in recent years passed legislation mandating instruction in cursive handwriting.

The year my daughter was born, cursive was axed from the national Common Core standards for K-12 education. For those of us in older generations, writing and reading cursive was a basic skill taught ...

Even in a world where computers and online learning have become paramount in education, Pennsylvania lawmakers could be adding an old-fashioned wrinkle to student development: cursive handwriting. "In ...

The Ohio Department of Education and Workforce has spurred another debate on the worth of teaching cursive handwriting in the digital age by updating its five-year-old teaching guidance for ...

Since the late 1800s, when the typewriter struck the first blow to penmanship, handwriting has become an increasingly obsolete skill, and therefore a powerful symbol of the past. It’s an idealized ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (KFVS) - Kentucky State Senator Lindsey Tichenor presented Senate Bill 167 on Tuesday, passing 37-1. The bill, if passed by both chambers, would change the state’s writing standard by ...

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