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 ...

Kids, don’t listen to the naysayers. Don’t fall for the story that it’s a dying art with no practical application in the modern world. Don’t allow computers with their word processing capabilities to ...

Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools across the country after a generation of students raised on keyboarding, texting and printing out letters longhand. Alabama and Louisiana passed ...

Is learning cursive writing essential for developing young minds, or is it an outdated skill being championed by nostalgic policymakers? The question sparked a lively and personal debate on a recent ...

Editor's note: The following opinion piece is in response to Pittsburgh Tribune-Review columnist Tom Purcell's column in the Feb. 11 Ledger arguing for teaching schoolchildren cursive. Handwriting ...

Slate Hill — "How many people make the cursive 'I' that looks like this?" Betsy Corletta asked her fourth-grade class, while pointing to a row of perfectly formed letters on the blackboard. Few of her ...

A single sentence, uttered in the trial of George Zimmerman for the shooting of teenager Trayvon Martin, has catapulted an issue into the national spotlight. When asked if she could read a letter in ...

I've always been fascinated by history. In the fourth grade I researched and wrote a report about my favorite U.S. President and the reasons why. After spending a couple of hours in the library using ...

I cannot understand why our legislators want to meddle with education policy by mandating cursive instruction. Cursive is a little-used, antique form of handwriting. It is slow to create and difficult ...

Kids, don’t listen to the naysayers. Don’t fall for the story that it’s a dying art with no practical application in the modern world. Don’t allow computers with their word processing capabilities to ...