Recent headlines announced that instruction in cursive will resume in public schools. I didn’t know it left! The word “cursive” sounds nasty, a spin-off of “curse.” I picture villain Snidely Whiplash ...

Cursive survives in select Minnesota schools but isn’t required teaching. Some lawmakers now want to mandate it, as more than ...

A Virginia after-school cursive club went viral. More than two dozen states require cursive in their curriculums. Is it an ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lightning struck in New Jersey on Gov. Phil Murphy's final day in office. Progressives and conservatives alike jointly celebrated his signing S1783/A3865 into law, requiring that public schools teach ...

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 ...

A new Pennsylvania law requires that elementary school students will be taught how to write in cursive. Gov. Josh Shapiro on Feb. 11 signed the bill, Act No. 2 of 2026, that would be effective in 60 ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Cursive handwriting is returning to Pennsylvania schools thanks to a bill signed into law this week. Act 2 of 2026 (formerly House Bill 17) — agreed to in the state Senate last week ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro on Wednesday signed a bill that will require a cursive handwriting curriculum in all Pennsylvania public schools. “I’m definitely rusty, but I think my penmanship was okay!” Shapiro ...

In today’s digital age, the art of handwriting remains an essential skill, one that bridges the gap between tradition and technology. With the advent of iPads, a new world of possibilities has opened ...

Pennsylvania elementary schools will soon be required to add cursive writing to their curriculum as state officials respond to concerns that too many young people can’t read handwriting or add their ...