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

The phenomenon of older guys getting together is even broader than writer Benjamin Cassidy describes (“A Curious Gathering of ...

These states join about two dozen others that require cursive instruction, marking another victory in the war against Chromebooks and their pesky keyboards. Everyone seems happy about this development ...

Over the weekend, I visited the Freedom Truck, a mobile museum that tells the story of how the 13 colonies declared independence. The interactive exhibit, which was parked in Boca Raton for the ...

When states in 2010 introduced the Common Core State Standards, which didn’t include cursive writing, most schools abandoned the flowy form of writing altogether. But cursive has begun making a ...

Education has been criticized in recent years — decades, really — for not teaching children how to think so much as teaching ...

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 ...

The flow of motion from putting pencil to paper and writing in cursive strengthens cognitive development and fosters fine motor skills, according to Travis Lee, Huntingdon Area School District’s ...

From navigating with paper maps to making change without a calculator, the practical skills that were second nature to every twelve-year-old in the 80s have become lost arts that leave today's adults ...

Revolutionary learning management system (LMS) brings real-time guided practice, precise scoring, and progress tracking ...

We’re glad to see Gov. Josh Shapiro has signed legislation backed by Rep. Kathy Rapp to mandate cursive instruction in Pennsylvania schools. The commonwealth joins nearly two dozen states to require ...