(The Conversation) – Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card, looked at it and said, “I can’t read cursive yet.” Then he handed it to me to read.

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

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Remember all the loops, curls, and swirls involved with learning how to write in cursive? Well, movies aren't the only thing that ...

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

Starting April 12, all public and private schools in Pennsylvania must reintroduce cursive handwriting into their curriculum.

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 ...

As followers of education controversies know by now, the Common Core academic standards, soon to be carried out by 45 states, don't require the teaching of cursive handwriting. The curricular gap has ...

Erica Ingber has something of a dark past when it comes to handwriting: The future elementary school principal got a C-minus in cursive in the fourth grade. But she's ready to follow the curvy ups and ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pennsylvania is considering legislation that mandates cursive instruction in public schools. Angela Guthrie/iStock via Getty ...