The Russian national anthem has played again at the Paralympics a day after Germany athletes appeared to stage a protest in the podium ceremony at Milan Cortina.

A Minnesota senator has proposed a bill to require students to learn cursive handwriting by the end of fifth grade. Proponents argue that learning cursive improves cognitive function and helps ...

Many people of a certain age remember practicing loops and waves, moving our small hands clutching pencils across pages with light blue dotted and solid lines. But in many schools, that elementary ...

For well over a century, elementary school students were taught the loopy, fluid handwriting style called cursive. Then came the rise of digital devices, and schools began to prioritize teaching ...

Two hundred and fifty years ago in Pennsylvania, the Declaration of Independence was written and signed in cursive. Now, schools across the commonwealth are mandated to teach that style of handwriting ...

A new Pennsylvania law requires that elementary school students will be taught how to write in cursive. Gov. Josh Shapiro on Feb. 11 signed the bill, Act No. 2 of 2026, that would be effective in 60 ...

Cursive writing lessons will be back in Pennsylvania classrooms after state lawmakers passed legislation requiring its reintroduction this month. Gov. Josh Shapiro signed the bill into law Wednesday.

Pennsylvania schools are required to teach cursive handwriting under a new law. Gov. Josh Shapiro announced on social media Wednesday that, using his "best cursive," he signed House Bill 17 into law. ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Cursive handwriting is returning to Pennsylvania schools thanks to a bill signed into law this week. Act 2 of 2026 (formerly House Bill 17) — agreed to in the state Senate last week ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro on Wednesday signed a bill that will require a cursive handwriting curriculum in all Pennsylvania public schools. “I’m definitely rusty, but I think my penmanship was okay!” Shapiro ...

Three toddlers and their father were killed in a Russian drone strike in eastern Ukraine that also injured their pregnant mother, local emergency services said. The family only arrived in the town of ...

Pennsylvania elementary schools will soon be required to add cursive writing to their curriculum as state officials respond to concerns that too many young people can’t read handwriting or add their ...