Separating students’ knowledge from their handwriting can leave teachers feeling like they’re detectives sifting through ...

Remember spending hours in school learning things your teacher swore you would use every single day? Some of those lessons ...

Cursive is making a comeback in Pennsylvania classrooms this April under a new state law. Why it matters: Spending valuable ...

To understand why cursive writing seems to be a dying art, you have to go all the way back to…well, only 2007, actually. It ...

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

Shelley Feltenberger reads a book about the first day of school to her third grade class to welcome them to the school year at Miles Township Elementary Aug. 27, 2024. Abby Drey adrey@centredaily.com ...

Halle O'Brien writes during after-school cursive club, held by teacher Sherisse Kenerson, at Holmes Middle School in Alexandria, Va. In Sherisse Kenerson’s after-school classroom, Sandi takes out a ...

Twelve-year-old Sandi Chandee wants to be a doctor when she grows up. But that’s not why she memorized one of the longest medical terms in the English language ...

As of one of 19 venues hosting events on Friday, March 13, for ArtCenter Pasadena Spring 2026, ArtCenter, Hoffmitz Milkin Center for Typography (HMCT) Gallery, 950 S. Raymond, presents the unusual ...

Like it or not, cursive writing is returning to countless classrooms. At least half of the nation’s states have adopted policies requiring cursive writing instruction in recent years. That reverses a ...

Many people of a certain age remember practicing loops and waves, moving our small hands clutching pencils across pages with light blue dotted and solid lines. But in many schools, that elementary ...

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 ...