A new state law calls for old-fashioned cursive handwriting to be taught in elementary school - but the Lawrence Township ...

“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 ...

A new state law requires teaching cursive writing in elementary schools starting in September. Some educators aren't happy ...

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 ...

Two Florida Republicans filed a bill that would require elementary school students to learn cursive. A Florida House ...

One month ago, on Jan. 23, this country celebrated National Penmanship Day. You wouldn’t know it. When I went to school in the 1950s, we had serious penmanship contests, with monetary or medallion ...

I write in cursive. I’m sorry to all my classmates who had to partner with me for physical worksheets for making our assignments half illegible to them. When I was in the third grade, I was taught ...

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 ...

Commentary: We wrote book reports. Essays. Love notes. Cursive was our only mode of written communication in school once we ...

Common Core standards do not call for cursive instruction as mandatory part of curriculum At least 41 states do not require public schools to teach cursive reading or writing The standards promote ...