A state lawmaker has introduced a new bill to require Michigan schools to once again teach cursive. State Rep. Brenda Carter, D-Pontiac, introduced the bill last month. It was referred to the State ...

A Michigan lawmaker is continuing to push for students to learn to read and write cursive in schools. Rep. Brenda Carter, D-Pontiac, introduced House Bill 4675, which would require the Michigan ...

News Brief. Thursday, October 19, 2023 — 10:23 am. New California bill requires students to learn cursive. A new bill that requires first through sixth graders to learn cursive was signed into law ...

Cursive allows students to write faster, get their thoughts down on paper better and improve their retention of information, ... In the 1970s, the D’Nealian script was introduced, ...

Assembly Bill 446 would require cursive handwriting instruction in first through sixth grade. The bill comes from Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva, D-Fullerton, a former public elementary school ...

For several afternoons this summer, she had them practice D'Nealian — a form of printing said to be a precursor to cursive. "I would love to see an emphasis on pretty handwriting again," she said.

Cursive handwriting is again part of the California elementary school curriculum under a bill signed into law this month. Assembly Bill 446, sponsored by Sharon Quirk-Silva (D-La Palma), ...

Dustin Ellis, fourth-grade teacher at Big Springs Elementary School in Simi Valley, said he assigns a cursive practice packet as homework, but if he had his druthers, he'd limit cursive ...

But a bill proposed by Assemblywoman Angela McKnight, D-Hudson, is hoping to guarantee students still learn how to write and read in cursive by requiring that schools add cursive (back) to the ...