As I was taking notes for this column, I thought it fitting to write them in cursive, a skill I spent many hours mastering ...

Cursive writing is making a comeback. After being made optional in 2006, cursive will return this September as a mandatory part of the Ontario elementary school curriculum. Education Minister Stephen ...

It’s a familiar refrain. Parents lament that technology is turning good, legible handwriting into a lost art form for their kids. In response, lawmakers in state after state – particularly in the ...

Patrick Damp is a web producer for CBS Pittsburgh. A Pittsburgh native who grew up watching KDKA-TV, Patrick studied journalism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. After half a decade in sports ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (CBS) -- While learning to write in cursive was once a standard part of school curriculums across the country, many classrooms have stopped teaching students to loop and link their ...

(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 ...

“I like how my pencil feels on the paper when I write it,” Evi said from her classroom at Mary Queen of Apostles in New Kensington. “It’s very loopy.” Evi and her classmates are learning the art of ...

Each of the 15 students in Mollie Sweeney’s third grade class raised their dominant hand. Sweeney, a teacher at Burrell’s Bon Air Elementary, then walked through the motions of how to write a ...

(WHTM) — Pennsylvania Rep. Joe Adams (R-Wayne/Pike) announced his plans this week to introduce legislation that requires cursive be taught in Pennsylvania schools. If passed, the bill would require ...

HARRISBURG. Pennsylvania (KDKA) — One Pennsylvania House of Representatives member informed his colleagues he is planning to introduce legislation that would require schools in the Commonwealth to ...