Dana Russell teaches cursive to her 3rd grade class at Laurel School Upper Campus in Menlo Park, Calif., Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2023. A law taking effect in 2024 will require cursive instruction.

She didn’t see any big issues, but the renewed emphasis on cursive writing will be a challenge to fit into an already packed elementary school schedule. “We’ll try to work with that in the ...

Texas is restoring mandatory cursive writing classes for elementary school students. An Ohio law is aimed at kids being able to print letters and words by third grade and write legibly in cursive ...

The curlicue letters of cursive handwriting, once considered a mainstay of American elementary education, have been slowly disappearing from classrooms for years. Now, with most states adopting ...

It's a pleasure. MARTIN: So in your article, you talk about a moment when you were teaching, and you realized that two-thirds of your class couldn't read cursive and even more couldn't write cursive.

Last year, elementary schools in Illinois were required to offer at least one class on cursive. Last month, a law went into effect in Ohio providing funding for materials to help students learn ...

After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters ...