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

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 ...

In addition to learning to sign their name or read greeting cards from grandparents, children practicing cursive writing hone fine motor skills. Writing vocabulary and spelling words helps children ...

A couple in Indiana developed a free writing academy to help young people learn how to write and read cursive handwriting.Twice a week, Terrell and Chelsea Wittington teach young students how to write ...

There’s a glimmer of hope if you’re looking for last-ditch strategies to save your child from the halls of stupidity. A study published this week in the journal Frontiers of Psychology found that good ...

California has enacted a law requiring schools to teach cursive writing. For years, learning cursive was considered an outdated and unnecessary skill, but the heavy reliance on technology has led to a ...

As school-age children increasingly rely solely on digital devices for remote- and in-class learning, many K-12 school systems around the world are phasing out cursive handwriting and no longer ...

State Sen. Don Gustavson is using history as his guide as he again attempts to require Nevada students to learn cursive handwriting by the end of third grade. Gustavson, R-Sparks, has even included ...

Long before Chromebooks took center stage in schools, there was cursive handwriting. But for many children growing up today, cursive can be akin to hieroglyphics, as the Modesto Bee reported. Common ...

A new bill in Minnesota proposes to reintroduce cursive handwriting in elementary schools. The bill mandates the Commissioner ...

Over the next few weeks, the Marshfield Mariner will be featuring editorial pieces written by AP English students and submitted as part of a class requirement. As always, we welcome submissions and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fourth-grade student Mandela Jones practices writing in cursive at Longfellow Elementary School in Pasadena. (Christina House / ...