In today’s classrooms, pens and exercise books are increasingly having to make way for screens and keyboards. Does technology help pupils write as efficiently?

New Jersey and Pennsylvania are among the most recent states to require schools to teach kids old fashioned handwriting skills.

A Minnesota senator is pushing a bill to require cursive handwriting in schools, citing cognitive benefits and historical ...

Is cursive writing still being taught in America? Some states are starting to bring the old style back after disappearing. Cursive writing is a style of handwriting characterized by connected letters ...

In January researchers and educators from across the country came together to address the role of handwriting in schools. The Idaho Senate followed up by deciding to pass the Cursive Resolution. We ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON ” John Hancock wouldn’t recognize the handwriting taught in many schools today. And his loopy slanted script might as well be a foreign language to 21st century students. Time and ...

Pennsylvania schools are required to teach cursive handwriting under a new law. Gov. Josh Shapiro announced on social media ...

Kansas State Board of Education members will decide this week whether the state's new handwriting standards will encourage schools to make sure that fifth- and sixth-graders can write legibly in ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro signed a law returning cursive handwriting to Pennsylvania elementary schools. We asked what you thought.

Anabela Malpique is affiliated with the School of Education, Murdoch University, Australia & the CICPSI, Faculty of Psychology of the University of Lisbon, Portugal. Writing is virtually part of ...