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

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 ...

When states in 2010 introduced the Common Core State Standards, which didn’t include cursive writing, most schools abandoned the flowy form of writing altogether. But cursive has begun making a ...

In many schools today, the traditional pen-to-paper notetaking has been replaced with tablets and personal laptops. At the front of most classrooms, where giant blackboards were once the focal point ...

Georgia's updated English Language Arts standards will require cursive writing instruction for students in grades 3 through 5. Third graders will begin learning how to read and write in cursive ...

These states join about two dozen others that require cursive instruction, marking another victory in the war against Chromebooks and their pesky keyboards. Everyone seems happy about this development ...

NORFOLK, Va. (WVEC) -- For centuries, cursive writing was a pillar of elementary education and a crucial tool for recording and preserving history. Now, cursive barely is being taught. At the Williams ...

No matter where you look, it seems like boomers can’t stop griping about the lack of cursive writing; kids today don’t do this, they don’t do that, and most egregiously of all, they don’t loop their ...

I am writing in response to your Sept. 24 article on cursive handwriting. About 25 years ago, I studied graphoanalysis, which is the study of handwriting to determine the personality and character of ...

Gov. Phil Murphy signed legislation mandating cursive instruction in New Jersey schools. Was it really worth it?

NEW YORK (AP) — Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools across the country after a generation of students who know only keyboarding, texting and printing out their words longhand.