“Modern research indicates that more areas of the human brain are engaged when children use cursive handwriting than when they keyboard,” said Bateman, who handwrites 125 ornate letters each year.

Instruction on cursive is already mandated by the state for grades three and four, but the new law — a result of Assembly Bill 446, which Newsom signed on Oct. 13 — will broaden instruction to ...

Teaching children to write by hand seems to have ... And with many hours of classroom time spent on traditional cursive writing, the benefits, some argue, may not be worth it.

Newswatch 16's Courtney Harrison spoke with educators and students in Lackawanna County about handwriting in schools ...