A Virginia after-school cursive club went viral. More than two dozen states require cursive in their curriculums. Is it an effective learning tool or just nostalgia?

“Research has shown that cursive handwriting enhances a child’s brain development, including memorization, and improves fine motor skills,” said California lawmaker Sharon Quirk-Silva, lead sponsor of ...

Several states in recent years passed legislation mandating instruction in cursive handwriting.

When Delores Gonzalez started teaching nearly 30 years ago, cursive was a basic in writing class. Today Gonzalez is among a dwindling number of teachers who still require it on assignments. "I tell ...

No matter where you look, it seems like boomers can’t stop griping about the lack of cursive writing; kids today don’t do this, they don’t do that, and most egregiously of all, they don’t loop their ...

Sometimes, Harrisburg surprises us by doing something simple, sensible and even bipartisan. That happened recently when the Legislature OK’d a bill making it mandatory to teach cursive writing again ...

GRAHAM. INDEED. WELL, TEACHERS MAY SOON BE TEACHING CURSIVE WRITING FOR FOUR YEARS IN SOUTH CAROLINA THIS WEEK, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES EDUCATION COMMITTEE APPROVED A BIPARTISAN BILL THAT CHANGES ...

The Kansas Department of Education is asking school districts how extensively they're teaching cursive handwriting. Results of a survey will be presented to the state Board of Education at a meeting ...

Tyler Meder, a 13-year-old growing up outside Chicago, is a model eighth-grader. He's an early riser, a hard worker, and an honors student at school. Even back in third grade, he remembers being ...

A new Pennsylvania law requires that elementary school students will be taught how to write in cursive. Gov. Josh Shapiro on Feb. 11 signed the bill, Act No. 2 of 2026, that would be effective in 60 ...

"Today more and more I meet high school students who, though they can read, sometimes well and sometimes poorly, are ashamed whenever they are confronted with the need to sign a document." On the back ...