At the French American School of Princeton (FASP) one morning, the kindergarten class showed their familiarity with cursive writing, proudly putting down short sentences that sat perfectly between the ...

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 the 1970s, and under the recent implementation of the Common Core, a former pillar of elementary education has been largely forgotten. But there’s a feeling that learning cursive still has ...

It’s a skill most people learn in 3rd grade but now is really only used to write a signature. So, in a digital age, is cursive handwriting still necessary? "If they don't learn it in 2nd and 3rd grade ...

Cursive – the pinnacle of quick and elegant penmanship, or just fancy, antiquated squiggles? However you choose to describe it, students in Louisiana’s public and charter schools will get bigger doses ...

You'll notice cursive is coming back to classrooms after Pennsylvania's new law requires schools to teach it again, and that change affects learners, parents, and educators across the state. This law ...

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

SACRAMENTO - California elementary schools are now required to teach cursive in the classroom. It has not been a requirement since 2010, but many schools including a portion of classrooms at Stockton ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Most school districts in Texas don't currently teach cursive. But that's about to change. In 2017, the State Board of Education changed the requirements for the "English Language Arts ...

The national education standards, Common Core, aimed to kill the teaching of cursive. But it is not dead—just wounded. Yesterday, I did a radio interview on WHO in DesMoines, which bills itself as the ...