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

In the past 20 years, whether schools should teach cursive writing has been frequently debated: In the mid-2000s and 2010s, cursive writing was largely discontinued in favor of typing skills. However, ...

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.

Cursive writing is making a comeback. After being made optional in 2006, cursive will return this September as a mandatory part of the Ontario elementary school curriculum. Education Minister Stephen ...

HB 127 would require all public school students in grades 2 through 5 to learn cursive and, for the first time, prove they’re ...

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 from ...

'Cursive writing is a critical life skill in helping young people to express more substantively, to think more critically, and ultimately, to express more authentically,' Education Minister Stephen ...

When kids put pen to paper, chances are they are printing. But Toronto’s Catholic board, hand-wringing over the handwriting skills of its students, is now looking to make sure all of them learn ...

More than two decades ago I saw a young girl looking questioningly at a phone with a dial. She needed to call home, but didn’t know how to use a rotary phone. I see a parallel with the Toronto board’s ...

A proposed bill in Florida seeks to reintroduce cursive writing instruction for students in grades 2 through 5.

Madison Walker, a 24-year-old third grade teacher at Samuel E. Hubbard, recalled moving as an elementary student from a ...