Alabama and Louisiana passed laws in 2016 mandating cursive proficiency in public schools, the latest of 14 states that require cursive. And last fall, the 1.1 million-student New York City ...

Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why. The ...

That’s not critical thinking. That’s just remembering.” In 2017, Louisiana passed a new law requiring cursive to be part of public school curriculums. Pro-cursive laws are also in place in ...

At the same time, the struggle for cursive became part of a growing, politicized nostalgia for a lost past. In 2016, Louisiana’s state senators reminded their constituents that the Declaration ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill that requires the teaching of cursive writing across the state. California Assembly Bill 446 amends the state's education code to include ...

Students' reading and writing suffer when they don't learn script. Why Students Need to Know Cursive Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card ...

Missouri and Illinois are among the states that have adopted the guidelines. Common Core does not include cursive in the recommended curriculum. In the years since Common Core's conception ...