When states in 2010 introduced the Common Core State Standards, which didn’t include cursive writing, most schools abandoned the flowy form of writing altogether. But cursive has begun making a ...

Each of the 15 students in Mollie Sweeney’s third grade class raised their dominant hand. Sweeney, a teacher at Burrell’s Bon ...

Over the weekend, I visited the Freedom Truck, a mobile museum that tells the story of how the 13 colonies declared independence. The interactive exhibit, which was parked in Boca Raton for the ...

Pennsylvania schools are required to teach cursive handwriting under a new law.

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 ...

Is cursive writing still being taught in America? Some states are starting to bring the old style back after disappearing. Cursive writing is a style of handwriting characterized by connected letters ...

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

Last week, elementary school students returned to the classroom in Archdale, N.C., with a new subject on the mandatory agenda: cursive writing. It’s a debate that has been simmering among experts, ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro signed House Bill 17 on Wednesday, making cursive instruction mandatory in all Pennsylvania public schools.

Cursive writing is in decline, says the New York Times. Should we panic? In a much-emailed article published Wednesday, Katie Zezima chronicled the hand-wringing of school administrators over whether ...

There are a lot of things about Common Core not to like, but perhaps the most viscerally unlikeable tenant of this leviathan educational system is the effort to eliminate cursive from elementary ...