Joyce is 77; her granddaughter, Annalise, is 17. Both act their age. Joyce is the grandmotherly type, less mobile than she’d like to be because of various physical ailments. Annalise is a teenager ...

SUGARLOAF TWP. — Students in second grade began a lesson on cursive writing without using paper or pencils. They stood up and started to recite: “down curve, under curve, over curve” while moving ...

Bonnie Morris has been keeping a journal for roughly 50 years. She used to read thousands of students’ essays for the Advanced Placement U.S. History exam. When she grades her students’ work, she ...

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

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The pen may not be as mighty as the keyboard these days, but California and a handful of states are not giving up on handwriting entirely. Bucking a growing trend of eliminating ...

If we are serious about improving outcomes, we must strengthen every foundational literacy skill, including handwriting.

HAZARD, Ky. (WYMT) - Senate Bill 167 requires cursive writing be taught in all elementary schools beginning in the 2025-2026 school year. Senator Lindsey Tichenor was a sponsor of the bill. She says ...

Cursive writing returns to Pennsylvania classrooms next month ...

Sherisse Kenerson stood in the front of her classroom Thursday afternoon at Holmes Middle School in Lincolnia, Virginia, and explained how to write the letters “M” and “N” in cursive. Then, she had ...

“Handwriting was initially the first means of preserving information that was previously only passed down orally,” explains Donica. Before the invention of the printing press, copying information or ...