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

I'm thrilled to see cursive handwriting in the news and in the classroom. Even better, the headlines agree with what I ...

Laura Miller, director of curriculum at Butler Area School District, said she’s seen how children nowadays can’t read cursive ...

At a local restaurant, Terrell Whittington and wife Chelsea revived a recent conversation about their childhoods and academics at Gary’s now-closed Ernie Pyle Elementary. They began discussing those ...

I am holding myself accountable for stating — literally in print — I would be reintroducing the Lost Art of Cursive Writing to middle schoolers. After researching a lesson plan, I settled on a goal ...

Break out the No. 2 pencils, kids. Cursive handwriting, long mourned as a lost art, is coming back to New Jersey schools thanks to one of Gov. Phil Murphy’s final acts. A new state law signed Monday ...

If we are serious about improving outcomes, we must strengthen every foundational literacy skill, including handwriting.

Concerns over students not knowing how to form signatures has prompted one local group to question whether the state’s cursive requirement is worth the paper it’s written on. Julie Anderson, ...

Twenty-somethings surround me in the newsroom. As expected, they use their phones for everything. I use my phone too — just differently. Most of my colleagues are digital natives. We work toward the ...

A proposal requiring testing for Florida students’ cursive writing ability passed its second House committee Thursday, the last stop before it goes before the full House. HB 127 would put in state law ...