Pennsylvania has enshrined cursive into its school curriculum. Why it matters: Spending valuable class time teaching students ...

NEW ORLEANS, LA (WVUE) - When it comes to writing, digital devices make it easy and fast. They even serve as the spelling police, and the convenience causes more and more people to nearly write off ...

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 ...

Students in second grade began a lesson on cursive writing without using paper or pencils. They stood up and started to ...

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 ...

Cursive writing is making a comeback in Pennsylvania classrooms. A new state law now requires all schools to teach cursive. The program is meant to ...

Sometimes, Harrisburg surprises us by doing something simple, sensible and even bipartisan. That happened recently when the Legislature OK’d a bill making it mandatory to teach cursive writing again ...

Research shows that legible cursive writing averages no faster than printed handwriting of equal or greater legibility. (Sources for all research are available on request.) Further research shows that ...

Several states in recent years passed legislation mandating instruction in cursive handwriting.

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