From the start of 2024, the state of California reinstated the requirement that first through sixth graders in public schools learn to write in cursive. The handwriting technique stopped being taught ...

The national education standards, Common Core, aimed to kill the teaching of cursive. But it is not dead—just wounded. Yesterday, I did a radio interview on WHO in DesMoines, which bills itself as the ...

When Celia Batan sat down to write her graduate thesis, she started with one question: “What do we lose if we do not teach children how to connect letters instead of printing or typing?” On the ...

Schools in the US and Canada have reincorporated cursive writing into their curricula over the past few years. The tendency has reopened the debate about its necessity. In the US, 23 states have ...

LONGVIEW, TX (KLTV) – It was once considered the sign of a well-rounded education, the ability to pen the written word in elegant cursive writing. In the age of the computer, cursive writing, for many ...

It may seem like a tie to the past, but 13 Fact Finders looked into Arizona’s cursive resurgence and found it’s about more ...