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 ...

Approximately 20 volunteers from the university and community squinted at the curled lettering to decipher the cursive for posterity. They were provided with laptops to create typed transcripts of the ...

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 ...

The history of calligraphy—the art of handwriting as a medium of expression beyond the meaning of words themselves—could be generically traced to the earliest found symbols. There was a time when ...

Educators in two upper Northumberland County school districts are ahead of the curve which some schools will be rounding to ...

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

Suzanne Baruch Asherson is a occupational therapist at the Beverly Hills Unified School District in California and a national presenter for Handwriting Without Tears, an early childhood education ...

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 ...

I have every reason not to support the State Board of Education's proposed cursive-writing requirement by the end of third grade. It’s done me no favors. But as a mom of three girls ages, 11, 10 and 7 ...