After her son died, State Rep. Brenda Carter (D-Pontiac) was sorting through some of the things that her son left behind, besides a whole lot of broken hearts, and came across a letter that he had ...

Teaching methods have changed over recent years, particularly in the areas of reading and writing. The pendulum is swinging back, though, so phonics and cursive writing are turning up in lesson plans.

New Jersey and Pennsylvania are among the most recent states to require schools to teach kids old fashioned handwriting ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A bill recently introduced to the state legislature by Rep. Brenda Carter would task the state with putting together an educational plan for teaching cursive, giving districts ...

Pennsylvania has enshrined cursive into its school curriculum. Why it matters: Spending valuable class time teaching students ...

A state lawmaker from Pontiac wants to encourage more school districts to teach cursive writing. After State Representative Brenda Carter’s son passed away in 2019, she found a letter he wrote in ...

Students in second grade began a lesson on cursive writing without using paper or pencils. They stood up and started to ...

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In this Wednesday, March 1, 2017, photo, students display some of their cursive writing work and exercises at P.S. 166 in the Queens borough of New York. Cursive writing is looping back into style in ...