A few months ago, I pulled out a kids’ book for my seven-year-old to read to me. She opened the first page, shook her head ...

Break out the No. 2 pencils, kids. Cursive handwriting, long mourned as a lost art, is coming back to New Jersey schools ...

On October 13, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill making cursive handwriting instruction mandatory in 1st through 6th grades. The legislation passed this year, but it could have just ...

Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why.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

Who needs a pencil and paper when we can just type or generate whatever text we need to? Actually, New Jersey students will, ...

Nearly 40 years later, the admonishments of my second-grade teacher at Thomas Jefferson Elementary in Anaheim still ring in my ears. “Messy! Messy!” I was a precocious 8-year-old, placed in a ...

In an age where screens dominate classrooms and workplaces, handwriting might seem like a relic of the past. But research shows that putting pen to paper plays a crucial role in literacy development. ...

“Teaching cursive is still important because the research shows a connection between the manual dexterity of writing by hand solidifying information in the brain,” said Joe LeGault, coordinator of ...