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 ...

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

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

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 ...

A new bill in Minnesota proposes to reintroduce cursive handwriting in elementary schools. The bill mandates the Commissioner ...

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.” ...

The flow of motion from putting pencil to paper and writing in cursive strengthens cognitive development and fosters fine ...

Sometimes, Harrisburg surprises us by doing something simple, sensible and even bipartisan. That happened recently when the Legislature OK’d a bill making it mandatory to teach cursive writing again ...

Digital might be king right now, but cursive is making a comeback. If you spend any time on social media at all, you’ve seen the handwringing over the loss of cursive writing — that ancient form of ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

COMPTON, Calif.—In a classroom at Anderson Elementary on a recent Thursday, third-graders lined up to have their pencils sharpened to a crisp point before beginning a cursive lesson. The students put ...