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

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 ...

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 ...

Students in second grade began a lesson on cursive writing without using paper or pencils. They stood up and started to ...

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 ...

If you're anything like me, you've completely forgotten how to write in cursive. Some people argue that's a shame, and that cursive is a wonderful, beautiful way of writing. Other people don't see why ...

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

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

Muse Elementary School teacher Jessica Mascara explains the cursive handwriting workbook she created to her students. Mascara will teach the students cursive two times a week until April. Logan ...

Yes, time to read the writing on the wall -- that is, if you can make it out. Thanks to e-mails and word processing, penmanship is a dying art. But there may be some value to reviving it. CBS News ...

How many people actually write letters anymore? Letter writing along with cursive script is going the way of the dinosaurs if it is not extinct already. With so many alternative and quicker ways to ...