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

Florida House Bill 127, filed for the 2026 legislative session, would require all public school students in grades 2 through ...

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

Remember all the loops, curls, and swirls involved with learning how to write in cursive? Well, movies aren't the only thing that can be rebooted. Cursive has been made part of the ELA Standards' ...

A discussion with the creator of a new cursive handwriting style being taught in Kentucky schools. New this school year, Kentucky students are required to learn ...

Tyara Brooks teaches her fourth-grade students how to write in cursive at Longfellow Elementary School in Pasadena. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) “Messy! Messy!” Nearly 40 years later, the ...

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, ...

Nearly 40 years later, the admonishments of my second-grade teacher at Thomas Jefferson Elementary in Anaheim still ring in my ears. “Messy! Messy!” I was a precocious 8-year-old, placed in a ...

Learning how to type correctly is now deemed by educators more important than learning how to write in cursive. About 10 minutes per day is the average time teachers spend with their students on ...

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

Like 32-volume encyclopedias or cassette tapes, cursive writing has become a casualty of technology. Why learn how to draw that funny-looking crooked triple loop when you can just tap the shift key ...