“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 ...

Even in a world where computers and online learning have become paramount in education, Pennsylvania lawmakers could be adding an old-fashioned wrinkle to student development: cursive handwriting. "In ...

As the new school year begins, all those little hands in elementary school are once again at the center of a fierce debate: Is cursive writing a skill that’s still worth teaching, or an out-of-date ...

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 ...

In 2016, California Democratic state Assemblymember Sharon Quirk-Silva sat with then-California Gov. Jerry Brown at an event where he signed baseball-type cards featuring the image of his dog, Colusa.

Today is National Handwriting Day! When you think of handwriting, you may think of the way you write your name or your penmanship during notetaking but what about the way you write? In today’s time, ...

The Ohio Department of Education and Workforce has spurred another debate on the worth of teaching cursive handwriting in the digital age by updating its five-year-old teaching guidance for ...

When given the opportunity to read the Declaration of Independence or the Bill of Rights, many local students would have as hard a time deciphering the documents as if they were written in Egyptian ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS 11)--In the age of computers and texting, it seems like penmanship is a dying art. When Common Core was adopted by most U.S. states in 2010, many schools opted not to teach ...

Justin Gross, director of school improvement and innovation for both the Nevada and Colo-Nesco school districts, works for a district, Nevada, that no longer teaches cursive handwriting and a district ...