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

Elementary school kids might be required once again to learn how to read and write in cursive. A pair of bills (HB 127 and SB 444) filed for the 2026 Legislative Session would mandate ...

"By the time kids get to my fifth-grade class, some of them don't know how to do their signature in cursive," said Quattrucci, a 29-year teaching veteran. "They know how to print their name in block ...

Fourth-grade student Mandela Jones practices writing in cursive at Longfellow Elementary School in Pasadena. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) Erica Ingber has something of a dark past when it ...

Texas will reintroduce cursive writing to the state curriculum for elementary students beginning in the 2019-2020 school year. Second graders will learn how to write cursive letters, and third graders ...

Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools across the country after a generation of students raised on keyboarding, texting and printing out letters longhand. Alabama and Louisiana passed ...

At Holmes Middle School in Lincolnia, teacher Sherisse Kenerson is reviving the art of cursive writing through an after-school club.

When it comes to written communications, before the advent of smartphones, texting and computers, cursive was the way to go. Examples of cursive writing date back to the time of the Romans, but like ...

Writing in cursive might be a lost art in the next few decades. While it was a school staple in elementary grades, it fell out of favor in the last few years. Currently, only 23 states require that ...

PHOENIX — With eyebrows furrowed and fingers holding pencils in clawlike grips, third graders at Lowell Elementary School in Mesa were tackling an assignment involving one of the most controversial ...

NORFOLK, Va. (WVEC) -- For centuries, cursive writing was a pillar of elementary education and a crucial tool for recording and preserving history. Now, cursive barely is being taught. At the Williams ...