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

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

Georgia lawmakers want a return to certain traditions in state schools. To make that happen, a bill that would require any schools that receive funding from the state with students in the third to ...

Georgia's updated English Language Arts standards will require cursive writing instruction for students in grades 3 through 5. Third graders will begin learning how to read and write in cursive ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. COLUMBUS, Ohio — Cursive could be making a ...

Bring back the practice worksheets of yore, perfect that slant, and — please — loop those lowercase Ls and Gs. Just as phonics-based reading recently returned to favor after years of emphasizing whole ...

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — The Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE) will begin cursive handwriting instruction for students in grades 3-5 this upcoming fall. To align with Georgia’s K-12 English ...

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 ...

Q: California is notorious for passing laws. Our son is in the fourth-grade. He has to learn cursive now — that’s the law? Are there also other new laws we should know about? B.C., Woodland Hills A: A ...

An old school skill is coming back to Georgia classrooms this year, as cursive writing becomes a required part of English Language Arts instruction for the first time in two decades. At Robert Shaw ...