A Minnesota senator is pushing a bill to require cursive handwriting in schools, citing cognitive benefits and historical ...
New Jersey and Pennsylvania are among the most recent states to require schools to teach kids old fashioned handwriting ...
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 ...
In addition to learning to sign their name or read greeting cards from grandparents, children practicing cursive writing hone ...
The flow of motion from putting pencil to paper and writing in cursive strengthens cognitive development and fosters fine ...
A new bill in Minnesota proposes to reintroduce cursive handwriting in elementary schools. The bill mandates the Commissioner ...
Pennsylvania just passed a law making teaching cursive writing to be done in schools. Cursive writing is important because signing a check or any other document the person needs to write their name.
State Representative Dane Watro, one of the cosponsors of the Pennsylvania bill, argues that cursive “connects us to our history, strengthens learning and deepens our understanding of the world.” ...