{"id":113027,"date":"2026-02-13T12:53:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T12:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/113027\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T12:53:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T12:53:06","slug":"pennsylvania-schools-will-now-require-cursive-handwriting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/113027\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Schools Will Now Require Cursive Handwriting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania public and private schools will now require cursive handwriting to be incorporated into their curriculums.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation, introduced by Sen. Wayne Langerholc, Jr. (R-35) was signed into law Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>This law now makes Pennsylvania the 18th state to require cursive to be taught in schools.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy reintegrating cursive into the curriculum, we are not simply teaching handwriting, we are investing in our students\u2019 cognitive development, strengthening their legal preparedness and preserving their connection to historical literacy, Cursive writing fosters fine motor skills, enhances memory retention and equips students to read foundational documents in their original form. In doing so, we ensure future generations are prepared both intellectually and practically.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sponsors of the bill argued that having cursive in schools could facilitate the development of fine motor skills and would have cognitive benefits that could support language fluency<br \/>and creativity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania public and private schools will now require cursive handwriting to be incorporated into their curriculums. The legislation,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-113027","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\/113027","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=113027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}