Hetty Roessingh receives funding from SSHRC. A Werklund School of Education Teaching and Learning Support Grant provided funding for the development of the resource discussed in this story. University ...

A pair of bills filed for the 2026 Legislative Session would mandate students from second to fifth grade to learn how to ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The swirling lines from Linden Bateman’s pen have been conscripted into a national fight to keep cursive writing in American classrooms. Cursive. Penmanship. Handwriting. In years ...

(TNS) — The Times asked readers for samples of their cursive and to talk about their relationship with old-fashioned, longhand writing with its loops, curls and dips. A new law will require all ...

WEBVTT BRITNEY DECKER ON THE CHANGE PARENTS OF THIRD-GRADERS WILL NOTICE. BRITNEY: KIMBERLY IS ENJOYING HER FINAL FEW DAYS OF SUMMER VACATION. >> I FEEL HAPPY AND NERVOUS. BRT ITNEY: DO YOU KNOW HOW ...

PHOENIX — With eyebrows furrowed and fingers holding pencils in clawlike grips, third graders at Lowell Elementary School in Mesa were tackling an assignment involving one of the most controversial ...

HB 127 would require all public school students in grades 2 through 5 to learn cursive and, for the first time, prove they’re ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — January 23 is National Handwriting Day. The day was created in 1977 to promote the use of pens, pencils and paper. But in 2020, is learning how to write in cursive still important?

STORY: Cursive is making a comeback in California. In an era of computers and tablets, the skill has fallen out of fashion. But a new state law requires students to learn the old-school style of ...

Mary Warren of Shallowater remembers the cursive handwriting that was taught in schools of the late 1940s. "I had penmanship. We had to do push and pulls, you know. And if they weren't within that ...