Despite popular belief, some students continue to learn how to read and write in cursive. While it’s not required to be ...

Twenty-four U.S. states require schools to teach cursive, according to a November 2024 report from Education Week, which ...

Treasure Coast lawmakers propose bills requiring elementary students to read and write cursive, reviving a skill dropped from ...

Florida House Bill 127, filed for the 2026 legislative session, would require all public school students in grades 2 through ...

After more than a decade, cursive is back on the curriculum at Big Spring elementary schools. Starting this year, students in third, fourth and fifth grades will learn how to read and write in cursive ...

COMPTON, Calif.—In a classroom at Anderson Elementary on a recent Thursday, third-graders lined up to have their pencils sharpened to a crisp point before beginning a cursive lesson. The students put ...

To the editor: As a 77-year-old who won my school’s penmanship competition in fourth grade, I’m pretty happy that California kids will be learning cursive handwriting. (“Learning cursive in school, ...

On October 13, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill making cursive handwriting instruction mandatory in 1st through 6th grades. The legislation passed this year, but it could have just ...

The seventh-graders from Berkshire Country Day School in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, bend close over a handwritten copy of the Judiciary Act of 1789, expanded large, in the basement of the National ...

Cursive makes a comeback — by law — in California public schools | Dec. 3 The article regarding cursive sadly quotes an education professor who derides including cursive in school curricula.

To the editor: Gustavo Arellano’s column on his traumatic experience learning cursive in the second grade brought back memories. More than 40 years ago, my son’s fourth-grade teacher complained about ...