ATLANTA — In this digital age, who needs to know how to read and write cursive? The State of Georgia says all third through ...

Don’t force kids to learn cursive. Mine is terrible, and I’m doing just fine Tyara Brooks teaches her fourth-grade students how to write in cursive at Longfellow Elementary School in Pasadena.

Learning to write in cursive may no longer be popular in American schools, but education experts stress that the craft can be beneficial to students in more ways than one.

Studies find many elementary school teachers have had little-to-no preparation in how to effectively teach handwriting, and a University of Iowa special education professor has developed a free ...

Cursive writing was so yesterday in California, but in 2024 it’s back in class About half of students aren’t being taught cursive, but this year it will be required ...

New and more defined cursive standards were recently added to the 2025-2026 school year for state standards.

Consequently, cursive writing instruction waned. But within the past decade, statewide cursive requirements have been trending upward. In 2016, 14 states required schools to teach cursive writing.

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.