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

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

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. RALEIGH, N.C. – A legislative committee ...

Last academic year, Samuel E. Hubbard Elementary received the John Hancock Award from the state for demonstrating excellence in cursive instruction, "a skill that builds fine motor strength, enhances ...

Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card, looked at it and said, “I can’t read cursive yet.” Then he handed it to me to read. If you have a child ...

State Sen. Don Gustavson is using history as his guide as he again attempts to require Nevada students to learn cursive handwriting by the end of third grade. Gustavson, R-Sparks, has even included ...

BUFFALO, NY (WKBW) — Cursive writing - it has been at the center of heated debate at schools for decades, but after years of trying to erase this skill - the writing is on the wall. Cursive is making ...

(The Conversation) — Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card, looked at it and said, “I can’t read cursive yet.” Then he handed it to me to read.

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 ...

COLUMBUS (WSYX) - Teaching cursive handwriting has gone the way of slide rule in many schools across Ohio but some state lawmakers want to require children to learn it. Learning cursive is not ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The swirling lines from Linden Bateman's pen have been conscripted into a national fight to keep cursive writing in American classrooms. Cursive. Penmanship. Handwriting. In ...