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 ...

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 ...

Starting in 2017, Louisiana students will learn cursive writing in 3rd grade—and they’ll keep getting instruction on it through graduation. A bill signed by Gov. John Bel Edwards last month applies to ...

How badly does 15 minutes a day for one third-grade semester impact other subjects? Not much. Why all the controversy? My third-graders loved to practice handwriting because I always wrote short, ...

The flow of motion from putting pencil to paper and writing in cursive strengthens cognitive development and fosters fine ...

Nevada Sen. Don Gustavson wants every student in his state to be able to write in cursive. The Republican state lawmaker is behind a bill that would make it a requirement for elementary schools to ...

A new state law calls for old-fashioned cursive handwriting to be taught in elementary school – but the Princeton Public Schools is ahead of the pack. The legislation, whose co-sponsors include state ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A bill requiring cursive writing to be taught in all West Virginia schools in grades 3-5 passed the House of Delegates easily on Tuesday. In a roll call of 87 in favor, eight ...

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How badly does 15 minutes a day for one third-grade semester impact other subjects? Not much. Why all the controversy? My third-graders loved to practice handwriting because I always wrote short, ...