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

As I was taking notes for this column, I thought it fitting to write them in cursive, a skill I spent many hours mastering ...

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Halle O'Brien writes during after-school cursive club, held by teacher Sherisse Kenerson, at Holmes Middle School in Alexandria, Va. In Sherisse Kenerson’s after-school classroom, Sandi takes out a ...

In an ever more digital world, pen and paper are increasingly getting replaced with screens and keyboards in classrooms. Now, a new study has investigated neural networks in the brain during hand- and ...

A Minnesota senator has proposed a bill to require students to learn cursive handwriting by the end of fifth grade. Proponents argue that learning cursive improves cognitive function and helps ...

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 ...

Lightning struck in New Jersey on Gov. Phil Murphy's final day in office. Progressives and conservatives alike jointly celebrated his signing S1783/A3865 into law, requiring that public schools teach ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many people of a certain age remember practicing loops and waves, moving our small hands clutching pencils across pages with light ...

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

The Osterhout Free Library in Wilkes-Barre can help with research. Times Leader file photo Library members browse the bookshelves and computers at the Osterhout Free Library in Wilkes-Barre. Library ...

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 ...