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 ...

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 ...

Cursive writing is making a comeback in Pennsylvania classrooms. A new state law now requires all schools to teach cursive. The program is meant to ...

Our ongoing series A More Perfect Union aims to show that what unites us as Americans is far greater than what divides us. In this installment, we look at the power of the written word. Common Core ...

Patience Gozaydin, 7, a second grade student at Frankstown Elementary practices cursive writing Thursday in Ann Franco’s class. Mirror photo by Cynthia Wise The flow of motion from putting pencil to ...

No more cursive (Nov. 28 letter)? Cursive writing is an art that requires control, thought and an intimacy with written words that is not possible with keyboard clicking. Carefully written cursive has ...

The year my daughter was born, cursive was axed from the national Common Core standards for K-12 education. For those of us in older generations, writing and reading cursive was a basic skill taught ...

I am writing in response to your Sept. 24 article on cursive handwriting. About 25 years ago, I studied graphoanalysis, which is the study of handwriting to determine the personality and character of ...

State Representative Dane Watro, one of the cosponsors of the Pennsylvania bill, argues that cursive “connects us to our history, strengthens learning and deepens our understanding of the world.” ...