A new state law calls for old-fashioned cursive handwriting to be taught in elementary school – but the Princeton Public Schools is ahead of the pack. The legislation, whose co-sponsors include state ...

Many people of a certain age remember practicing loops and waves, moving our small hands clutching pencils across pages with light blue dotted and solid lines. But in many schools, that elementary ...

The writing is on the wall, and it’s not in cursive. Now, however, a new chapter is being written for cursive. Several studies have shown that learning cursive makes students better learners. Writing ...

(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 ...

What’s something kids can’t do, but teachers don’t teach? If you answered “cursive,” write a flowing capital letter “A” by hand on your report card. Once a staple of classrooms and correspondence, ...

Patience Gozaydin, 7, a second grade student at Frankstown Elementary practices cursive writing Thursday in Ann Franco’s class. Mirror photo by Cynthia Wise The flow of motion from putting pencil to ...