Each of the 15 students in Mollie Sweeney’s third grade class raised their dominant hand. Sweeney, a teacher at Burrell’s Bon ...
The flow of motion from putting pencil to paper and writing in cursive strengthens cognitive development and fosters fine ...
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 ...
We need cursive in classrooms to preserve civic literacy for future generations. | Opinion ...
Pennsylvania just passed a law making teaching cursive writing to be done in schools. Cursive writing is important because signing a check or any other document the person needs to write their name.
Education has been criticized in recent years — decades, really — for not teaching children how to think so much as teaching ...
Daily Item, a CNHI newspaper. It does not necessarily reflect the opinion of The Tribune-Democrat. Pennsylvania students are about to join counterparts in more than two dozen states who will be ...
Opinion

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.
Cursive writing lessons will be back in Pennsylvania classrooms after state lawmakers passed legislation requiring its reintroduction this month. Gov. Josh Shapiro signed the bill into law Wednesday.
More than 40,000 years ago, Ice Age humans were carving repeated patterns of dots, lines, and crosses into tools and small ivory figurines. A new computational study of more than 3,000 of these ...
Revolutionary learning management system (LMS) brings real-time guided practice, precise scoring, and progress tracking ...
A House bill that would limit access to screens for Missouri's elementary students is now headed to the Chamber floor.