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

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 ...

In addition to learning to sign their name or read greeting cards from grandparents, children practicing cursive writing hone ...

A couple in Indiana developed a free writing academy to help young people learn how to write and read cursive handwriting.Twice a week, Terrell and Chelsea Wittington teach young students how to write ...

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 ...

Many schools now limit handwriting instruction, noting children are better off preparing for the real world, where nimble texting thumbs and quick typing fingers create most written communication. But ...

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 ...

When Jack Lew was nominated to be Treasury secretary in 2013, President Barack Obama joked that as a condition of the appointment, Lew would have to learn to sign his name more legibly. The ...

Pennsylvania is joining about 25 other states — including Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware — in requiring cursive instruction.

Gov. Josh Shapiro signed House Bill 17 on Wednesday, making cursive instruction mandatory in all Pennsylvania public schools.

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