Pennsylvania is on track to mandate teaching cursive in elementary schools. The bill overwhelmingly passed the state house ...

State Superintendent Richard Woods introduced the "John Hancock Award" to recognize schools excelling in cursive instruction. When younger students return to Georgia public schools this fall, they ...

The Georgia Department of Education is bringing back cursive writing instruction to public elementary schools for the 2025-26 ...

Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why. The ...

Georgia schools are re-introducing cursive writing for the upcoming school year. Third, fourth and fifth grade students will ...

Moving forward, handwriting instruction for grades 1 to 6 is to include writing “in cursive or joined italics in the appropriate grade levels,” the law states. Advertisement The directive ...

Students' reading and writing suffer when they don't learn script. Why Students Need to Know Cursive Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card ...

The Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE) will begin cursive handwriting instruction for students in grades 3-5 this ...

NEW YORK (CBS) — Today, Jan. 23, is National Handwriting Day, celebrated on the birthday of John Hancock. But nowadays, penmanship – especially cursive – is becoming a lost art.

We went to the Maryland farmhouse home of Nan Jay Barchowsky, 79, who for almost 30 years has been a handwriting consultant with a line of instructional materials she developed. A calligrapher and ...

A recent study published in the Frontiers of Psychology suggests that cursive handwriting might be more effective in promoting learning than typing. The research, involving 36 students, examined ...