It makes documents poetic. It strengthens hand-eye coordination. And, hundreds of years ago, “it was a mark of an educated person.” That’s how Sen. Ann Rest, DFL-New Hope, described cursive ...

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 ...

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The phenomenon of older guys getting together is even broader than writer Benjamin Cassidy describes (“A Curious Gathering of ...

In addition to learning to sign their name or read greeting cards from grandparents, children practicing cursive writing hone ...

These states join about two dozen others that require cursive instruction, marking another victory in the war against Chromebooks and their pesky keyboards. Everyone seems happy about this development ...

Sculptures and tools from the Stone Age show markings that could be an early precursor to written language, according to a new analysis.

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When states in 2010 introduced the Common Core State Standards, which didn’t include cursive writing, most schools abandoned the flowy form of writing altogether. But cursive has begun making a ...

Education has been criticized in recent years — decades, really — for not teaching children how to think so much as teaching ...