Pennsylvania is joining about 25 other states — including Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware — in requiring cursive instruction.

Pennsylvania students will soon be required to learn cursive handwriting in school under a new law signed by Gov. Josh Shapiro. The bill was introduced in December 2024 by Rep. Dane Watro, who said ...

All Pennsylvania students will now need to learn cursive. Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) signed House Bill 17, which received bipartisan support, into law Tuesday. It places ...

Students currently learn cursive between third and fifth grade. If House Bill 127 becomes law, students will begin learning ...

Handwriting requirements were cut from school curricula around the world. Now it’s looping back, riding on a wave of evidence.

A new state law calls for old-fashioned cursive handwriting to be taught in elementary school - but the Princeton Public ...

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 ...