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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

In the past 20 years, whether schools should teach cursive writing has been frequently debated: In the mid-2000s and 2010s, cursive writing was largely discontinued in favor of typing skills. However, ...

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 ...

New bills would mandate cursive reading and writing instruction for Florida elementary school students. Students would be required to demonstrate proficiency in reading and writing cursive by the ...

Kate Gladstone is the founder of Handwriting Repair/Handwriting That Works and the director of the World Handwriting Contest. April 30, 2013 Handwriting matters, but not cursive. The fastest, clearest ...

Suzanne Baruch Asherson is a occupational therapist at the Beverly Hills Unified School District in California and a national presenter for Handwriting Without Tears, an early childhood education ...