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 ...

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 ...

Pennsylvania has enshrined cursive into its school curriculum. Why it matters: Spending valuable class time teaching students ...

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

“Research has shown that cursive handwriting enhances a child’s brain development, including memorization, and improves fine motor skills,” said California lawmaker Sharon Quirk-Silva, lead sponsor of ...

The group of preteens uncapped their markers and began practicing how to capitalize two new letters: “B” and “Q.” The lesson felt like a return to the basics. Only this time, the middle-schoolers were ...

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 ...

A Minnesota senator is pushing a bill to require cursive handwriting in schools, citing cognitive benefits and historical connection.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Cursive writing is a skill many of us learned growing up, but it's unfortunately not part of the mandatory curriculum in Michigan. As a result, many children are missing out on ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro signed a law returning cursive handwriting to Pennsylvania elementary schools. We asked what you thought.

The need for the ability to write in cursive is an exceptionally concerning problem for children and teens today. Many people in Generation Z do not know how to write in cursive, which is a scary ...