{"id":152705,"date":"2026-03-30T22:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T22:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/152705\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T22:06:10","slug":"cursive-writing-returns-to-pennsylvania-classrooms-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/152705\/","title":{"rendered":"Cursive writing returns to Pennsylvania classrooms next month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tCursive writing will return to Pennsylvania classrooms next month under a new state law passed in February.The state Department of Education is developing guidance and expectations for teaching.Pennsylvania was among many states that ditched cursive writing as a mandatory subject in 2010 when they adopted Common Core education standards.Studies have shown that learning cursive can help improve student&#8217;s memories and motor skills.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Cursive writing will return to Pennsylvania classrooms next month under a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/article\/pa-schools-reintroduce-cursive-handwriting-curriculum\/70260558\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">new state law<\/a> passed in February.<\/p>\n<p>The state Department of Education is developing guidance and expectations for teaching.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania was among many states that ditched cursive writing as a mandatory subject in 2010 when they adopted Common Core education standards.<\/p>\n<p>Studies have shown that learning cursive can help improve student&#8217;s memories and motor skills.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cursive writing will return to Pennsylvania classrooms next month under a new state law passed in February.The state&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[69400,69394,68307,69399,8054,227,69397,21454,59882,69401,69398,41242,69395,28,69396,30,29,13495,6984,500],"class_list":["post-152705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-common-core-education-standard","tag-common-core-education-standards","tag-cursive-writing","tag-cursive-writing-next-month","tag-department-of-education","tag-education","tag-expectation","tag-february","tag-guidance","tag-mandatory-subject","tag-many-state","tag-memory","tag-new-state-law","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-classroom-next-month","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-state-department","tag-student","tag-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152705","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=152705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}