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 ...

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

In this digital age, who needs to know how to read and write cursive? The State of Georgia says all third through fifth graders will learn again how to do just that. Channel 2’s Lori Wilson went out ...

Sitting in the newly renovated St. Anastasia School playground as a fifth grader four years ago doing her homework, Maritza Escamilla was approached by a student from nearby Glen Flora Elementary ...

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

(The Conversation) – Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card, looked at it and said, “I can’t read cursive yet.” Then he handed it to me to read.

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

Gov. Josh Shapiro signed a law returning cursive handwriting to Pennsylvania elementary schools. We asked what you thought.

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

An Indiana Department of Education report due this Friday may add fuel to the debate for the return of compulsory cursive writing instruction at Hoosier public and charter elementary schools. Or, it ...