These states join about two dozen others that require cursive instruction, marking another victory in the war against Chromebooks and their pesky keyboards. Everyone seems happy about this development ...

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 ...

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 ...

You'll notice cursive is coming back to classrooms after Pennsylvania's new law requires schools to teach it again, and that change affects learners, parents, and educators across the state. This law ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The pen may not be as mighty as the keyboard these days, but California and a handful of states are not giving up on handwriting entirely. Bucking a growing trend of eliminating ...

“I like how my pencil feels on the paper when I write it,” Evi said from her classroom at Mary Queen of Apostles in New Kensington. “It’s very loopy.” Evi and her classmates are learning the art of ...

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

WISCONSIN RAPIDS – It's not uncommon today to see a toddler, barely capable of forming a coherent sentence, skillfully work a smartphone or tablet. And with the increasing amount of time kids spend ...

Cedarwood School teacher Niki Gazley helps one of her students, Regan King, practice writing in cursive. Across the country, there's a new push to bring back an old skill. Last year, the Louisiana ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — I’ll be honest: my handwriting didn’t come from ruler-wielding teachers in elementary school. It came from watching and mimicking my mother’s clear and elegant script. Her cursive ...