Typing engages fewer neural circuits, resulting in more passive cognitive engagement.” This context is helpful, but elementary teachers will also need to know how to teach it. Today’s veteran teachers ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Pennsylvania has enshrined cursive into its school curriculum. Why it matters: Spending valuable class time teaching students ...

“Research has shown that cursive handwriting enhances a child’s brain development, including memorization, and improves fine motor skills,” said California lawmaker Sharon Quirk-Silva, lead sponsor of ...

Students in second grade began a lesson on cursive writing without using paper or pencils. They stood up and started to ...

Several states in recent years passed legislation mandating instruction in cursive handwriting.

Sierra Rivera and her older sister, Dahlia, were thrilled at the idea of baking up a batch of their grandmother’s pumpkin cookies for Thanksgiving, but when their dad gave them the handwritten recipe, ...

GRAHAM. INDEED. WELL, TEACHERS MAY SOON BE TEACHING CURSIVE WRITING FOR FOUR YEARS IN SOUTH CAROLINA THIS WEEK, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES EDUCATION COMMITTEE APPROVED A BIPARTISAN BILL THAT CHANGES ...