Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But, surprise: Experts say there may be benefits to practicing good, old-fashioned handwriting. And there’s actually now an uptick ...

Typing engages fewer neural circuits, resulting in more passive cognitive engagement.” This context is helpful, but elementary teachers will also need to know how to teach it. Today’s veteran teachers ...

A Virginia after-school cursive club went viral. More than two dozen states require cursive in their curriculums. Is it an ...

Pennsylvania schools are required to teach cursive handwriting under a new law. Gov. Josh Shapiro announced on social media ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the past 20 years, whether schools should teach cursive writing has been frequently debated: In the mid-2000s and 2010s, ...

Gov. Phil Murphy signed legislation mandating cursive instruction in New Jersey schools. Was it really worth it?

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

LANSING, MI – State Rep. Brenda Carter held up a letter from her late son, Brian, who wrote when he was 9 years old that he wanted to be a police officer. Brian grew up to be an Army veteran, the ...

A bill that would require elementary school students in New Jersey to learn how to read and write cursive has gained the backing of state Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin. “Great idea,” Coughlin, ...

It is with great amusement that I read of our state Legislature focusing on what really matters. Specifically, some lawmakers want to make the teaching of cursive writing mandatory for public schools, ...

I would like to see the new Charleston County School District superintendent impose some new learning objectives for all students in grades 2-12. Teach the students cursive writing. There is an entire ...

The forgotten art of cursive writing — speedily putting words to paper in flowing connected letters — received a major blow almost a decade ago. Teaching the skill in grade school was dropped from the ...