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.

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.

My own experience with cursive writing could have been traumatizing, had kids of the 1960s been as aware of the Trauma-Over-Everything-Syndrome that proliferates today.

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 ...

The “meat” of cursive instruction will happen in 2nd grade art class, when students will learn lowercase letters. In 3rd grade, they’ll learn capital letters. Brueck said the district has ...

“I didn’t know how to read it,” said Sierra, 8, a third-grader at Dublin Elementary School. “I thought it was like a different language.” ...

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.