Nearly 20,000 children’s handwriting kits have been recalled after pens were found to contain unsafe levels of lead. Here’s what to know.

Pennsylvania students will soon join a growing number of their peers nationwide practicing the looping, connected script of cursive writing—part of a broader national revival of the once-standard ...

This recall involves two different types of TheKiddoSpace-branded handwriting practice kits sold with or without a carrying case: - The block handwriting kits consist of four reusable books with ...

Thousands of kits used to teach children to print and write cursive have been recalled because they contain too much lead. TheKiddoSpace print and cursive handwriting kits were sold online at ...

“I like how my pencil feels on the paper when I write it,” Evi said from her classroom at Mary Queen of Apostles in New Kensington. “It’s very loopy.” Evi and her classmates are learning the art of ...

According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, the pens included in TheKiddoSpace Print and Cursive Handwriting Kits contain lead in the nibs at levels that violate the federal lead-content ...

Cursive writing is making a comeback in Pennsylvania classrooms. A new state law now requires all schools to teach cursive. The program is meant to ...

Before students hunker down to take their SATs this spring, many will have an array of tools to help them with the exam. Flash cards, study guides and — cursive handwriting? For many, cursive ...

How badly does 15 minutes a day for one third-grade semester impact other subjects? Not much. Why all the controversy? My third-graders loved to practice handwriting because I always wrote short, ...

Each of the 15 students in Mollie Sweeney’s third grade class raised their dominant hand. Sweeney, a teacher at Burrell’s Bon Air Elementary, then walked through the motions of how to write a ...