Specifically, the law mandates either cursive or joined italics handwriting for elementary students. There are other topics that have been (and remain) a required topic of instruction for grades ...

A third-grade student practices cursive writing in a 2023 file photo. To teach cursive handwriting, or not to teach it, is a topic that can divide, but recently updated educational guidance in ...

Cursive writing was removed from schools’ “Common Core” standards, which are set by a group of governors and school administrators from around the country, in 2010.

Cursive is making a comeback. This fall, Georgia’s elementary students will officially dive back into the art of handwriting ...

A third-grader practices his cursive handwriting at P.S.166 in the Queens borough of New York. Mary Altaffer AP With the governor’s signature (no doubt in cursive), California Assembly Bill 446 ...

In California, a new law will require all students there to learn cursive handwriting — a skill that had been mandatory for generations, but started to fall by the wayside in the digital age.

An Indiana Department of Education report due this Friday may add fuel to the debate for the return of compulsory cursive writing instruction at Hoosier public and charter elementary schools.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WNDU) - Cursive writing may be something of a lost art, but the South Bend Community School Corporation Board has unanimously passed a measure to return cursive writing to the ...

A member of the Maine Legislature has announced that he is sponsoring a bill that, if passed, will require schools to provide instruction in cursive writing to children in grades 3-5.

House Bill 170 requires that schools must teach cursive writing “by the end of the fifth grade” as part of English language arts instruction. The bill also requires that multiplication tables ...

After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters ...