Cursive started falling out of favor in U.S. schools after 2010 when most states adopted Common Core academic standards. Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother ...

Students' reading and writing suffer when they don't learn script. Why Students Need to Know Cursive Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card ...

Cursive fell out of favor in U.S. schools over a decade ago. In 2010, most states adopted which omitted cursive handwriting from expected academic skills to be learned by K-8 students.

BLUFFTON, S.C. — A proposal to bring cursive writing back into South Carolina public schools is one step closer to becoming law after passing out of committee Tuesday. Supporters celebrated as the ...

Cursive had its moment, somewhere between powdered wigs and the Pony Express. Kids today should be learning coding, robotics, digital literacy and how to spot AI-generated nonsense, not perfecting ...

Rouan explained the potential difference between printing and cursive, suggesting that “when you’re printing something, you draw the letter and then you stop and then you draw the next letter ...

If our students can’t read cursive, they can’t read the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, or even a grandparent’s handwritten letter. Cursive writing isn’t just a skill.

At Indian Mills School, Durelli’s fourth graders began the school year with cursive writing instruction twice a week and then shifted to independent learning later in the year. Durelli used a program ...

Cursive could be written into Maine law under new bill Once a standard in elementary schools, cursive is no longer taught to all students. A Maine lawmaker would like to change that.

Five states began requiring cursive in the 2018-2019 school year. California and New Hampshire joined the list in 2023 and Kentucky and Iowa in 2024 became the most recent states to require cursive.

Historically, cursive writing was a necessary skill. The ability to write quickly and legibly was essential for notetaking, personal correspondence, and even completing standardized forms.

If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority ...