(File Photo: Source for Photo: Flo Young, originally from Cambridge, Mass., browses through a box of pen pal letters outside the Sullivan County Health Care nursing home in Unity, N.H., June 8, 2020. (AP Photo\/ Charles Krupa, File)<\/p>\n
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News<\/p>\n
(Harrisburg, PA) Pennsylvania schools\u00a0are now required to\u00a0teach cursive handwriting under a new law. Governor Josh Shapiro\u00a0made an announcement on social media yesterday that he signed House Bill 17 into law, using his \u201cbest cursive.\u201d Pennsylvania State Representative Dane Watro, who is the sponsor of the bill,\u00a0stated\u00a0that\u00a0cursive is a skill that is proven to boost cognitive growth while preserving a link to the past. However, the practice has fallen because of the growing technology of the present age.\u00a0Warto\u00a0cited studies that show writing in cursive activates brain regions tied to memory, language and critical thinking and listed several other benefits of cursive writing, expressing that\u00a0it builds fine motor skills and improves coordination and dexterity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(File Photo: Source for Photo: Flo Young, originally from Cambridge, Mass., browses through a box of pen pal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-112025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-pennsylvania","9":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","10":"tag-pennsylvania-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}