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

Starting April 12, all public and private schools in Pennsylvania must reintroduce cursive handwriting into their curriculum.

Cursive writing is making a comeback in Pennsylvania classrooms. A new state law now requires all schools to teach cursive. The program is meant to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

In addition to learning to sign their name or read greeting cards from grandparents, children practicing cursive writing hone ...

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 ...

Pennsylvania could become the 26th state to require schools to teach cursive to students. Cursive instruction waned after Common Core Standards were adopted by most states in 2010, but in recent years ...

A Minnesota senator is pushing a bill to require cursive handwriting in schools, citing cognitive benefits and historical connection.

The Times asked readers for samples of their cursive and to talk about their relationship with old-fashioned, longhand writing with its loops, curls and dips. A new law will require all California ...