Handwriting requirements were cut from school curricula around the world. Now it’s looping back, riding on a wave of evidence.

Gov. Phil Murphy signed legislation mandating cursive instruction in New Jersey schools. Was it really worth it?

More than a decade after it was phased out in most schools, elementary school students in California will begin learning cursive writing next year — thanks to a new law. Let's take a moment now for a ...

The bill would have students from 2nd to 5th grade learn how to write in cursive and then be tested on what they learned at ...

Pennsylvania’s students will soon learn how to write in cursive once again, as a bill requiring such education is headed to ...

Break out the No. 2 pencils, kids. Cursive handwriting, long mourned as a lost art, is coming back to New Jersey schools thanks to one of Gov. Phil Murphy’s final acts. A new state law signed Monday ...

Legislation that would bring cursive handwriting instruction back to Pennsylvania schools is one step away from becoming law ...

E’lon Hamilton, a student at West Mound Elementary, founded the Cursive for Kids club to teach cursive writing to his peers, supported by Principal Margaret Brown.

No matter where you look, it seems like boomers can’t stop griping about the lack of cursive writing; kids today don’t do this, they don’t do that, and most egregiously of all, they don’t loop their ...

The lower chamber voted 111 to 0 in favor of the legislation ( HB 127 ). But as also was the case in 2025, the aspirational ...

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Known as House Bill 17, the legislation requires cursive handwriting to be taught in all Pennsylvania schools.