Is learning cursive writing essential for developing young minds, or is it an outdated skill being championed by nostalgic policymakers? The question sparked a lively and personal debate on a recent ...

Concerns over students not knowing how to form signatures has prompted one local group to question whether the state’s cursive requirement is worth the paper it’s written on. Julie Anderson, ...

A recent study by scientists at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology concluded something I suspected to be true: cursive writing promotes learning more than typing on a keyboard. They ...

The Pennsylvania Capitol on Monday, Dec. 22, 2025. (Photo by Peter Hall/Capital-Star) Cursive writing lessons will be back in Pennsylvania classrooms after state lawmakers passed legislation requiring ...

Not far from State Sen. Jean Leising’s Capitol office is a museum that prominently displays documents penned by Abraham Lincoln. It’s a favorite educational destination for Indiana schoolchildren in ...

I am holding myself accountable for stating — literally in print — I would be reintroducing the Lost Art of Cursive Writing to middle schoolers. After researching a lesson plan, I settled on a goal ...

Concerns over students not knowing how to form signatures has prompted one local group to question whether the state’s cursive requirement is worth the paper it’s written on. Julie Anderson, ...

PORTLAND (AP) -- Looking through 17 papers that University of Portland students recently wrote in class, Education Professor Richard S. Christen finds only two are in cursive handwriting. Everyone ...

A bill mandating that cursive handwriting be taught in all public and private elementary schools across Pennsylvania was among six pieces of legislation Gov. Josh Shapiro signed into law last ...

Last year, in adopting the Common Core standards, boards of education in Alabama, California and Georgia included a cursive writing requirement for their schools. Massachusetts repealed its cursive ...