A pair of bills filed for the 2026 Legislative Session would mandate students from second to fifth grade to learn how to ...

Twenty-four U.S. states require schools to teach cursive, according to a November 2024 report from Education Week, which ...

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

Fourth-grade student Mandela Jones practices writing in cursive at Longfellow Elementary School in Pasadena. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) Erica Ingber has something of a dark past when it ...

To the editor: As a 77-year-old who won my school’s penmanship competition in fourth grade, I’m pretty happy that California kids will be learning cursive handwriting. (“Learning cursive in school, ...

SOMERSET — From educational requirement to after-school activity, cursive writing is making a comeback – at least in one classroom at Somerset Public Library. “Up to the attic, through the first floor ...

I write only in cursive and as most of my teachers would probably say, that is not a good thing. My cursive is atrocious. I learned cursive from second grade on but after I learned how to do it, came ...

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 ...

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