A Virginia after-school cursive club went viral. More than two dozen states require cursive in their curriculums. Is it an ...

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

“Research has shown that cursive handwriting enhances a child’s brain development, including memorization, and improves fine motor skills,” said California lawmaker Sharon Quirk-Silva, lead sponsor of ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...