Twenty-four U.S. states require schools to teach cursive, according to a November 2024 report from Education Week, which credited a 10-state uptick over the past decade as state lawmakers and ...

Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card, looked at it and said, “I can’t read cursive yet.” Then he handed it to me to read. If you have a child ...

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

Columnist Justice B. Hill writes that practicing cursive writing brings more than just good penmanship. Cursive requires ...

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — It’s a skill that nearly disappeared during the pandemic. But inside one DeKalb County elementary school, students are proving cursive writing is far from forgotten. At Robert ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Cursive writing is a skill many of us learned growing up, but it's unfortunately not part of the mandatory curriculum in Michigan. As a result, many children are missing out on ...

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

Elementary-school students would have to learn how to write in cursive, under a bill set to be vetted by a House committee ...

Shawn Datchuk is an associate professor of special education at the University of Iowa. This essay from The Conversation is republished under a Creative Commons license. Recently, my 8-year-old son ...