New Jersey and Pennsylvania are among the most recent states to require schools to teach kids old fashioned handwriting ...
In addition to learning to sign their name or read greeting cards from grandparents, children practicing cursive writing hone ...
It makes documents poetic. It strengthens hand-eye coordination. And, hundreds of years ago, “it was a mark of an educated person.” That’s how Sen. Ann Rest, DFL-New Hope, described cursive ...
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 ...
Educators in two upper Northumberland County school districts are ahead of the curve which some schools will be rounding 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 ...
A new bill in Minnesota aims to bring cursive handwriting back to elementary schools.
State Representative Dane Watro, one of the cosponsors of the Pennsylvania bill, argues that cursive “connects us to our history, strengthens learning and deepens our understanding of the world.” ...