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.

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.

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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.

One month ago, on Jan. 23, this country celebrated National Penmanship Day. You wouldn’t know it. When I went to school in the 1950s, we had serious penmanship contests, with monetary or ...

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In 2010, cursive was omitted from the new national Common Core standards for K–12 education. The students in my class, and their peers, were then somewhere in elementary school.

California kept cursive in its state standards for third and fourth grades, but it wasn’t enforced, Quirk-Silva said, leaving it up to the discretion of districts and often individual teachers.

The language of this bill might lead one to think that cursive is a six-year venture, but let’s get real: there are only 26 letters in the alphabet.