Cursive handwriting is alive in North Carolina’s elementary schools – five years after state lawmakers required that students be taught what some advocates feared was becoming a long lost art. A new ...

Kate Gladstone is the founder of Handwriting Repair/Handwriting That Works and the director of the World Handwriting Contest. April 30, 2013 Handwriting matters, but not cursive. The fastest, clearest ...

Sophomore Andrew Forbes of Nashville, Tennessee, used cursive everyday in elementary school, from third grade through eighth grade. He was required to write out all his papers, worksheets, and notes ...

But is cursive like riding a bike or do we forget it instantly like virtually anything we learned in high school math? To find out, we asked 11 adults with varying degrees of cursive experience to ...

I live in West Philadelphia, and my kids, who are 17 and 19, have some beautiful cursive handwriting, a skill they picked up, along with Latin and the ability to sit up straight at a desk for 60 ...

A new Ohio law encourages schools to teach students how to write legibly in cursive by the end of the fifth grade. While cursive is returning to state emphasis, it never left Oakwood. The district has ...

SACRAMENTO - California elementary schools are now required to teach cursive in the classroom. It has not been a requirement since 2010, but many schools including a portion of classrooms at Stockton ...

A student draws a picture in Emelia Bruscantini's classroom at Milam K-8 Center in Hialeah. Once considered a dying craft, cursive may soon see a revival in public schools across Florida thanks to a ...

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 students from ...

Florida lawmakers are putting pen to paper with a new push to make sure every elementary student can actually read Grandma’s handwriting, reviving a cursive requirement that’s technically already on ...

New bills in Florida would mandate cursive instruction for students in second through fifth grade. Proponents argue cursive is important for reading historical documents and developing a personal ...