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 ...

La Casa de Amistad awarded $500K grant to expand immigration legal services La Casa de Amistad has been awarded a $500,000 grant from the GiveAF Foundation, founded by “Crime Junkie” ...

Children have to learn how to write letters. The debate in schools over the past two decades has been whether they should they learn to write in cursive or print. Some say that with so many students ...

I’m happy Mr. Holter has lived a long life but I hope he might reconsider his selfish wish to get rid of cursive training (“Rid the world of the curse of cursive writing,” Dec. 24). Perhaps he doesn’t ...

When I wrote two weeks ago about the death of handwriting hastened by the elimination of cursive training from many public school curriculums, I thought I might get a few cards and letters. Much to my ...

Across the country, schools are no longer teaching cursive writing. We asked members of the Times-Union Email Interactive Group whether this is a wise move. Here is a representative sampling of the ...

Common Core standards do not call for cursive instruction as mandatory part of curriculum At least 41 states do not require public schools to teach cursive reading or writing The standards promote ...

“Old-fashioned” and “useless” I thought could be me and my cohort of pre-boomers (those born before 1946) on our way into retirement homes and given to just doddering around the garden watering the ...

So I learned to write cursive many years ago. Wasn't very good at it and even had to take remedial cursive since I have a doctor's signature. Once I left home my Mom would include letters with gifts ...