Inside the classroom, a new Kentucky law requires students to learn cursive. Senate Bill 167, which passed in 2024, goes into ...

Cursive writing could be making a comeback in schools. So, we're testing out our own skills! Tsunami alerts triggered for ...

By the numbers: In 2016, 14 states required schools to teach cursive writing. By 2019, 20 states had enacted legislation requiring it, Now, there are 25 states with cursive instruction requirements.

Cursive writing, once a staple of elementary education, is vanishing from classrooms across the United States. A Michigan ...

Historically, cursive writing was a necessary skill. The ability to write quickly and legibly was essential for notetaking, personal correspondence, and even completing standardized forms.

But I wanted to know if people still use cursive at all. I asked the people I interviewed to write 'Good Morning Detroit' in cursive, and pretty much everyone passed with an A.

The reasons used for cursive instruction and the variability of students receiving that instruction have a profound effect on what actually happens when it’s taught. Purpose and context matter.

In cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a word are joined with connecting strokes, such as in a person’s signature. Cursive fell out of favor in U.S. schools over a decade ago.

Cursive writing is still taught in some schools within the U.S., although, it's not nationally mandated or emphasized. In Louisiana, cursive is legally required to be taught in public schools.

To teach cursive handwriting, or not to teach it, is a topic that can divide, but recently updated educational guidance in Ohio comes down on the side of teaching cursive handwriting.