New K-12 English language arts standards build on state’s reading progress by reinforcing fundamental skills essential to ...

Pennsylvania and New Jersey are among the latest states to require cursive handwriting to be taught in elementary schools.

While many of the classes you took while in high school remain, there are a handful that have vanished or have been replaced. Here are several of the classes you took in high school that your kid ...

In one of his final acts as governor before leaving office, Phil Murphy told New Jersey schools what to do again. He’s done it with Policy 5756. That’s the one he passed off as a binding law when it ...

Think back to the last time you jotted down a quick note or made a grocery list. Chances are, it wasn’t with pen and paper. Over the past decade, keyboards and screens have quietly replaced ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — An old form of education may be returning to Kentucky classrooms. Senate Bill 167 would require cursive writing be taught in elementary schools. The bill would also require students ...

Typing may be faster than writing by hand, but it’s less stimulating for the brain, according to research published Friday in the journal Frontiers in Psychology. Subscribe to read this story ad-free ...

Summary: Handwriting, compared to typing, results in more complex brain connectivity patterns, enhancing learning and memory. This study used EEG data from 36 students to compare brain activity while ...

On October 13, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill making cursive handwriting instruction mandatory in 1st through 6th grades. The legislation passed this year, but it could have just ...

Handwriting has been a significant part of human culture for thousands of years. With the advent of computers and digital writing tools, the art of drawing fancy letters has taken on new dimensions.

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BIDDEFORD — The connections in the Maine art world are many and layered. An exhibition at the University of New England Art Gallery at Ketchum Library on the Biddeford campus shows how those casual ...