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 ...
Bringing cursive back into Florida classrooms provides many benefits for students beyond reading historical documents and good penmanship. Learning cursive helps develop cognitive skills and habits ...
Wall Street Journal opinion editors Mary Julia Koch and Emma Camp debate the necessity of teaching cursive in classrooms on ‘Fox & Friends.’ ...
Thousands of markings on objects made around 40,000 years ago may have been more than just doodles, a new analysis suggests ...
Each of the 15 students in Mollie Sweeney’s third grade class raised their dominant hand. Sweeney, a teacher at Burrell’s Bon ...
Generation Z, also known as Zoomers, get a bad reputation for being tech-obsessed. In reality, many of the old-fashioned ...
The flow of motion from putting pencil to paper and writing in cursive strengthens cognitive development and fosters fine ...
From navigating with paper maps to making change without a calculator, the practical skills that were second nature to every ...
Revolutionary learning management system (LMS) brings real-time guided practice, precise scoring, and progress tracking ...
How would a New York Times obituary writer measure up to the scribes of the Book of the Dead? He found out at the Brooklyn Museum.
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The joy of slow writing

Composing by hand, without Google or a blinking cursor, reveals the seams of writing — and the surprising benefits of slowing down.
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 ...