Handwriting requirements were cut from school curricula around the world. Now it’s looping back, riding on a wave of evidence.

Handwriting engages more areas of the brain than typing, which leads to deeper learning, better memory and stronger cognitive ...

New Jersey is bringing cursive back to schools. According to a new bill, all third, fourth, and fifth-grade students in the state will be required to learn it.

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

Break out the No. 2 pencils, kids. Cursive handwriting, long mourned as a lost art, is coming back to New Jersey schools thanks to one of Gov. Phil Murphy’s final acts. A new state law signed Monday ...

When was the last time you opened your mailbox to find a beautifully handwritten letter? Probably not in the last week, or even decade. That might not be a good thing. New research shows that dropping ...

Should you be concerned about the current rage for keyboards in kindergarten to replace crayons, pencils, and paper? Are you worried if your third grader can’t write or read their name in cursive?

New research has analyzed brainwave patterns in both children and young adults while they wrote by hand and as they typed on a keyboard. The results revealed distinctly different brain patterns ...