Students currently learn cursive between third and fifth grade. If House Bill 127 becomes law, students will begin learning ...

Flo Young, originally from Cambridge, Mass., browses through a box of pen pal letters outside the Sullivan County Health Care nursing home in Unity, N.H., June 8, 2020. (AP Photo/ Charles Krupa, File) ...

Handwriting requirements were cut from school curricula around the world. Now it’s looping back, riding on a wave of evidence.

Legislation that would bring cursive handwriting instruction back to Pennsylvania schools is one step away from becoming law ...

Pennsylvania students are about to join counterparts in more than two dozen states who will be required to learn cursive writing as part of the mandatory curriculum.

I type all day. I swipe and tap on my phone. I scribble notes to myself on paper. I’m happy with my mostly-digital life. But every now and then I’ll get a handwritten note—from an old lady, ...

Pennsylvania elementary schools will soon be required to add cursive writing to their curriculum as state officials respond to concerns that too many young people can’t read handwriting or add their ...

To the editor: As a 77-year-old who won my school’s penmanship competition in fourth grade, I’m pretty happy that California kids will be learning cursive handwriting. (“Learning cursive in school, ...

What’s something kids can’t do, but teachers don’t teach? If you answered “cursive,” write a flowing capital letter “A” by hand on your report card. Once a staple of classrooms and correspondence, ...

Oscar Sanchez, a fifth-grader at Enders Elementary, works on his cursive handwriting on Thursday. The class is trying out an old-school handwriting curriculum to see how explicit cursive writing ...

Students' reading and writing suffer when they don't learn script. Why Students Need to Know Cursive Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card, ...