Typing engages fewer neural circuits, resulting in more passive cognitive engagement.” This context is helpful, but elementary teachers will also need to know how to teach it. Today’s veteran teachers ...

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

Pennsylvania has enshrined cursive into its school curriculum. Why it matters: Spending valuable class time teaching students to put pen to paper is a growing nationwide trend, despite students using ...

“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 ...

It comes as good news to see that a local lawmaker’s proposal to require cursive handwriting to be taught in Pennsylvania’s schools is gaining steam. The law, House Bill 17, crafted by state Rep. Dane ...

Georgia lawmakers want a return to certain traditions in state schools. To make that happen, a bill that would require any schools that receive funding from the state with students in the third to ...

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

A "No More Kings" demonstration is planned to protest what organizers call a constitutional crisis. Readers expressed divided ...

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

The phenomenon of older guys getting together is even broader than writer Benjamin Cassidy describes (“A Curious Gathering of ...

Ryan MillanEditorial Intern Multiple Missouri House Representatives are pushing legislation that’d require schools to teach and grade cursive writing, with the goal of making students proficient at ...

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 ...