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

On the final day of his term, former Governor Phil Murphy signed into law a bill requiring public schools to teach cursive ...

He’s the only one there who can write in cursive — a skill he perfected under the tutelage of nuns at St. Anne’s Academy in ...

A Virginia after-school cursive club went viral. More than two dozen states require cursive in their curriculums. Is it an ...

A Florida bill that would require elementary school students to learn cursive writing is heading to the governor’s desk after ...

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

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 ...

Many people of a certain age remember practicing loops and waves, moving our small hands clutching pencils across pages with light blue dotted and solid lines. But in many schools, that elementary ...

A Minnesota senator has proposed a bill to require students to learn cursive handwriting by the end of fifth grade. Proponents argue that learning cursive improves cognitive function and helps ...

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 ...